. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 January, 1894 THE MATTER-OF-FACT VIEW. 'pHE Boston Manufacturers' Gazette advances some very practical views touching the question of forest management, taking the middle ground between the sentimental and the material question of forest preser- vation. As our New England contemporary remarks, " the sturdy lumberman who owns one hundred acres of timber growth, and whose business in life is to convert the same into logs and wood, must needs study the pract
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 14 January, 1894 THE MATTER-OF-FACT VIEW. 'pHE Boston Manufacturers' Gazette advances some very practical views touching the question of forest management, taking the middle ground between the sentimental and the material question of forest preser- vation. As our New England contemporary remarks, " the sturdy lumberman who owns one hundred acres of timber growth, and whose business in life is to convert the same into logs and wood, must needs study the practical side of the forestry question. He has but little appreciation of the poetic side of the tree, its foliage and scenic effect. He must be approached, if he is to be converted from the error of his ways, by practical argu- ments in favor of a more modern, rational and intelligent management of his ; The lumberman or timber-land owner has the un- doubted legal right to destroy every stick of timber in his woods, if he so please, but convince him that it is for his interest to cut only the matured and full-grown timber, and leave the young trees to grow, and he may be converted to the Old-World science of forestry. If all a man's capital be invested in timber lands, and he cannot sell the land, he may be compelled to realize on the stumpage and convert the growth into cash. The Gazette reasons thus : That while the owner of mature trees in the forest loses money in permitting them to stand after their growth has ceased, the lumber- man is also unwise who makes a clean cut of his forest growth, when the young and immature trees left to nature will pay him far greater profits than if destroyed at the same time the mature specimens are marketed. The lumberman may cut fitly to one hundred ripe trees from an acre and still leave twice as many imma- ture trees growing for future cullings. In either the aesthetic or the practical view, it is the part of common sense to s
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