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Fourth, when the forest countries are compared as to wood imports 

 and exports, and when it is realized that a number of the countries 

 which practice forestry are even now on the wood-importing list, the 

 need of forestry in the export countries is doubly enforced. 



l^et wood imports and tvood exports of forest countries."' 

 [Average data, calculated from the returns of five years.] 



Country. 



Imports. 



Exports. 



Country. 



Imports. 



Exports. 



Great Britain and Ire- 



Tons. 



9,290,000 



4,600,000 



1,230,000 



1,020,000 



470,000 



420.000 



330,000 



210,000 



200,000 



180,000 



170,000 



160,000 



150,000 



Tons. 



Mauritius.- .. _ 



Tons. 



20,000 



15,000 



10,000 



5,000 



Tons. 



land. _-__._ _- 



Servia.- 





Germany 





Ceylon _. _ 





Prance 





Japan- . 





Belgium 





West India, Mexico, 

 Honduras, etc 





DfinmarV 





18,000 

 28,000 

 55 000 



Italy 





West Coast of Africa 









India __ 





Spain 





Ronmania 





60,000 

 1,020,000 

 1,040,000 



Egypt 





United States 





HoUand 







Nom^ay - . 







Dominion of Canada 







Australasia 







2,144,000 





Austria-Hungary 



Sweden 





3,670,000 

 4,460,000 

 5,900,000 



Portugal 



60,000 





Natal 



50,000 

 50,000 

 50,000 

 35,000 





Bnlfarin 





Total 





China 





18,725,000 



18,390.000 



Greece 













« From tables in Schlich's Manual of Forestry, vol. 1, 3d edition. 



Russia, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, and Canada, for instance, are 

 making good the wood deficit of a large j^art of the world. Sweden 

 cuts much more wood (106.000,000 cubic feet) than she produces; 

 Russia, in spite of her enormous forest resources, has probably entered 

 the same road; and England, the leading importer of wood, must 

 count more and more on Canada. But the United States consumes 

 every year from three to four times the wood which its forests pro- 

 duce, and in due time will doubtless take all the wood that Canada 

 can spare. In other words, unless the countries of the western hemi- 

 sphere apply forestry promptly and thoroughly, they will one day 

 assuredly be held responsible for a world-wide timber famine. 



Fifth, in comparison with foreign countries the prospects for 

 forestry in the United States are particularly bright, for the fol- 

 lowing reasons: 



(1) We start with the assurance that success may certainly be 

 attained. 



(2) We have few of the handicaps which have trammeled other 

 countries. We have no ancient forest rights and usages with which 

 to contend, or troublesome property questions to settle. 



(3) The results which other lands have achieved by long struggle, 

 often with bitter costs, are free to us to use as we wish. We have, it 

 is true, our purely National and local forest questions, but the key 

 to many of them is somewhere in the keeping of the countries which 

 have achieved forestry. 



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