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indiscriminate use of the axe has left many wide tracts bare which 
are unfit for arable culture, and which ought therefore to be the 
sites of the perpetual forests of the country. This has led to the 
establishment of a school of foresters, the pupils of which, more 
numerous from year to year, are spreading themselves over the 
country, and, by directing the future cuttings, and by planting the 
sites of the ancient woods, have given reason to expect that in a 
few years the supply will be as ample as ever. Another result 
of this establishment has been, that numerous trials have been 
made in acclimatising other trees, and selecting sites favourable 
for their growth. Lands have been purchased which were found 
to be propitious to the oak, and millions of trees have already 
been planted for the use of the navy. The larch also has been 
found to thrive in the Swedish soil and climate, and has likewise 
been extensively planted. 
In adverting to the proceedings of the provincial branches of 
the academy, President Poppius states, among other objects to 
which their attention has been directed, that they have dissemi- 
nated tracts upon practical agriculture specially adapted to the 
circumstances and customs of their several provinces — that in 
some districts small clubs had been formed under the name of 
parish committees, in connexion with the provincial societies, by 
which committees those points are especially discussed and pro- 
moted which bear upon the existing condition of the several 
parishes, often of great extent — and that many of the provincial 
societies, some of them singly, others by uniting the strength of 
two or more provinces, had already taken measures for the esta- 
blishment of district agricultural schools. 
Agricultural Schools. — Since this report was published, the 
subject of agricultural schools has been more generally taken up 
in Sweden, and provision has even been made by the diet for 
promoting, encouraging, and endowing with a yearly revenue 
every such school — not exceeding one in each province* — which 
shall hereafter be established. I am not aware of the exact terms 
of the resolution or grant made for this purpose, but I believe one 
of its provisions is to the effect that an annual endowment will be 
given by the state, equal to the intei-est, at 5 or 6 per cent., of the 
money subscribed and expended upon the institution by the pro- 
prietors and other inhabitants of the province, so long as the in- 
stitution is maintained. In addition to this, however, they have 
already given special grants of money to those previously in ex- 
istence, and of portions of the national domains as sites for the 
intended schools and school-farms, where these domains happen 
* In Sweden there are twenty-four departments (Liiro), and about twenty 
schools are talked of. 
