SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 
for each year was fixed; the operations necessary to assure the regeneration anq 
proper growth of the best species on the cut-out areas were laid down. In this 
way a maximum of forest produce was assured; and yet only the forest interest 
was cut and utilized, the forest capital remained intact. In the utilization, waste 
TIMBER COUNTRY AT NAYOOK, VICTORIA. 
was, as far as possible, eliminated, which was a comparatively easy matter with 
a large timber-using population to cater for. 
Yet, with all this care and forethought, a country like France soon found 
itself unable to supply its own needs in timber, and was forced to import large 
PILES AT ADVENTURE BAY (TASMANIA) READY FOR TRANSPORT FOR ADMIRALTY 
: HARBOR WORKS AT DOVER (ENGLAND). 
‘quantities. Germany, too, who had perfected a particularly fine, if somewhat 
rigid, forest policy, and who possesses no less than 30,000,000 acres of forest, has 
also been obliged to rely on imported wood to make up the deficiency of her local 
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