. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Foreslrtj Journal, October, 1917 1339 probably always have not more than one-third of its total area fit for the i)low. This happens to be a balance fixed by nature and the part of wisdom is to realise not only from the tillable lands, but the huge untillable areas every dollar of profit that may be derived. SWEDEN'S $5,000,000 FOREST INCOME An interesting illustration is afforded by Sweden. Its latitude is much higher than that of New Brunswick while it is six times greater in area. Sweden realized early that th
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Foreslrtj Journal, October, 1917 1339 probably always have not more than one-third of its total area fit for the i)low. This happens to be a balance fixed by nature and the part of wisdom is to realise not only from the tillable lands, but the huge untillable areas every dollar of profit that may be derived. SWEDEN'S $5,000,000 FOREST INCOME An interesting illustration is afforded by Sweden. Its latitude is much higher than that of New Brunswick while it is six times greater in area. Sweden realized early that the eggs of prosperity arc not carried necessarily in the one basket of agriculture. Enormous forests, growing on soil no better than New Brunswick's, within short reach of the European timber markets, promised splendid returns if properly managed. "Proper management" of course, meant not the hit-or-miss exploitation that characterizes so much of Canada's forest development, but scientific care in the growing and harvest- ing of timber as a crop. What the yield of a given area would be fifty years hence was of more importance than the catching of a momentary profit. Fire, the arch enemy of forests, was met and overcome. Fire, indeed, has in the main, been successfully excluded from the great forests of Europe for from fifty to one hundred years. Conservation and good forest management are meaningless terms as long as the plague of flames sweeps off in a week more than the constructive forester can accomplish in ten years. Today, Sweden is taking from her forests, as the dividends of fire protection and sensible development (and without impairing the precious "capital stock" of timber as New Brunswick does), no less a sum than $100,000,000 a year, representing Continued on Page 1349. The good effect of keeping live stock out of the farmer's woodlot. No grazing has been allowed on the section to the right of the rail fence with the result that a fine crop of har
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