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BRITISH FORESTRY PROMOTION. 
A report from Consul Frank W. Mahin, at 
Nottingham, states that for over twenty years 
past the conservation of British forests has been 
discussed and urged by persons interested and 
informed on the subject. The consul reviews 
the movement and its relation to the supply of 
timber as follows: 
“Twenty years ago a committee was ap¬ 
pointed by the House of Commons to consider 
how our woodlands could be made more re¬ 
munerative.’ It reported in favor of forest 
schools and a National Board of Forestry, and 
remarked on the management of crown forests 
and private woodlands in the United Kingdom. 
Another step was taken several years later, 
when the Board of Agriculture was authorized 
by Parliament to collect forestry statistics and 
to financially aid forestry lectures and instruc¬ 
tion, and a small sum was accordingly granted 
to four educational institutions for those pur¬ 
poses. 
“A third step was taken ten years later, when 
a committee was appointed by the Board of 
Agriculture to inquire into and suggest meas¬ 
ures to promote British forestry. This com¬ 
mittee made a report which aroused general at¬ 
tention. It pointed out that there was rapidly 
approaching a general shortage of the timber, 
and that a great waste area existed in these 
islands which might be afforested. But this, 
the report said, was too vast a work for indi¬ 
vidual effort t(3 cope with; and while not urging 
the Government to undertake the task it indi¬ 
cated that no other course was practicable. 
“Five years later, in 1907 , another step was 
taken by the Government purchase of an estate 
in Scotland and another in Ireland for practical 
work in afforestation. Special instruction in 
forestry has been established at Oxford, Cam¬ 
bridge, and other schools. Several great muni¬ 
cipalities are planting forests on the areas 
whence their water supplies come. It now 
seems that the period of tentative inquiry has 
ended and that of actual demonstration has be¬ 
gun. 
The lack of general interest in the preserva¬ 
tion of Britain’s forests is attributed mainly to 
the universal substitution of coal for wood as 
fuel, and to high prices of British agricultural 
products, leaving but a limited percentage of 
the population with special reasons for giving 
the subject any thought. 
“Meantime, during the past twenty years, 
while those steps were being taken, the imports 
of foreign wood and lumber into this country 
were enormously increased. That of fir, oak 
and teak_ sawed and as logs, gained from 50 
to 86 per cent, in quantity. Of furniture wood's, 
mahogany increased 96 and ‘unenumerated’ 
288^4 per cent., while the imports of wood pulp 
grew by 391 per cent. The only offsets were 
small decreases in staves and some ‘unenum¬ 
erated’ timbers. 
“At the same time the area of sources of sup¬ 
ply was steadily decreasing. A large part of the 
imports was formerly drawn from Germany, 
which now can not only export no timber, but 
is itself an importer. The United States is also 
practically closed as a source of supply. 
Mahogany is imported from Mexico. Cuba, and 
the West Indies, and oak from Russia and 
Japan; but as to all other varieties local dealers 
say that Canada and the Baltic regions are 
practically the only present available sources 
of supply for Great Britain. 
“Statistics show that the United Kingdom has 
a smaller percentage of woods to other land 
and a smaller area of woodland per capita of 
the population than any other country in 
Europe. It has absolutely less woodland in 
acres than any other European country except 
Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Portugal. The 
statistics count Turkey. Bulgaria, Bosnia and 
Herzegovina as one, with five times Britain’s 
woodland acreage, but give all other countries 
separately.” 
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