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TURKEY. 



In spite of the fact that there are large and valuable forests in Tur- 

 key', Macedonia alone having at least 5,000,000 acres, Turkey is with- 

 out forestry. Much of the forest is difficult of access, and the rest 

 of it is devastated. 



THE CHIEF LESSONS OF FORESTRY ABROAD. 



What forestry has done in other countries shows, first of all, that 

 forestry pays, and that it pays best where the most money is expended 

 in applying it. Both these points are very clearly brought out in the 

 following table: 



Expenditures and revenues of national forests, showing higher productiveness 

 under larger expenditures."' 



Country. 



Total net 

 revenue 



from Gov- 

 ernment 

 forests. 



Expendi- 

 ture per 

 acre. 



Net reve- 

 nue per 

 acre. 





$3,098,428 

 2,299,000 



$2.05 

 3.00 

 3.58 

 1.25 

 1.32 

 1.58 

 1.99 

 .95 



$6.60 



Saxony 



5.30 





829,162 



744,209 



237,663 



17,054,144 



5,128,348 



4,737,250 



4.42 



Hesse -— - .. _ _ _ 



4.29 



S witzerl and 



2.55 





2.50 



Bavaria - - -- 



2.22 





1.75 



Xtaly - - - _ _ __ -_ 



.33 



TTiinerirv 





.34 

 .56 



.32 





5,313,000 

 4^,600 



.21 



Roumania - ___ __ 



.18 







.17 



Sweden _ - _ __ 



1,677,672 



21,500,000 



& 12,000 



128,659 



.02 

 .01 

 .007 

 .0093 



.00 



Russia - - __ _ _ 



.032 



United States {igofc?!: 



^ .0001 

 .00086 



« Prepared from the latest available data. ^ Deficit. 



It is plain that the United States is enormously behindhand in its 

 expenditure for the management of the National Forests, but that 

 nevertheless returns have already increased with increased expendi- 

 ture for management. 



A second lesson, clearly brought home by foreign forestry, is the 

 need of timely action, since forest waste can be repaired only at great 

 cost. 



Third, private initiative does not suffice by itself to prevent waste- 

 ful forest use. England, it is true, has so far consistently followed a 

 let-alone policy. However, England has been depending uj^on foreign 

 supplies of wood. Now that all Europe is running behind every year 

 in the production of wood (2,620,000 tons) and there 'are unmistak- 

 able signs that countries which lead as exporters of wood will have 

 to curtail their wood exports, England is at last feeling her depend- 

 ence and is speculating uneasily as to where she can certainly secure 

 what wood she needs in the future. 



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