. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1919 225 SWEDEN VERSUS CANADAâA FIGHT FOR BRITISH MARKETS Speaking at a lumbermen's meeting in Tor- onto, Mr. Montague Meyer, who is accompany- ing Sir James Ball, British Timber Controller, in his tour of Canada, outlined the purchases that had been made in Canada this year. In the Ottawa Valley they had bought 50,000 standards of white pine and red pine. They had also purchased the majority of the wintered stocks of spruce from Ottawa right down the St. Lawrence and practically all of the
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1919 225 SWEDEN VERSUS CANADAâA FIGHT FOR BRITISH MARKETS Speaking at a lumbermen's meeting in Tor- onto, Mr. Montague Meyer, who is accompany- ing Sir James Ball, British Timber Controller, in his tour of Canada, outlined the purchases that had been made in Canada this year. In the Ottawa Valley they had bought 50,000 standards of white pine and red pine. They had also purchased the majority of the wintered stocks of spruce from Ottawa right down the St. Lawrence and practically all of the wintered stocks and some of the fresh cut stocks in the Bay of Fundy and New Brunswick. He said that attention must be paid to the requirements of the European markets for special sizes and grades of spruce if they wished to secure the trade that formerly went to Sweden. "We have no wish to spend a single shilling in Sweden", he said, "if we can help it. At the present time we can not help it, but the time will come when Canadian lumbermen, if they do the right thing in regard to manufacturing what the market wants, will furnish us with the majority of our timber and only a small portion of our imports will come from ; THE REST OF THE STORY. Mr. Meyer might have continued his remarks to include a parallel betwen the development of forestry practice in Sweden and the absence of any such exotic in the Dominion of Canada. Mr. Meyer stopped at the mill-gate. He might have told, with much advantage, how that in Sweden the entire forest area, in public and private ownership, is virtually under a reign of scientific forestry law, that little or no cutting can be done anywhere unless in agreement with forestry regulations. Sweden employs more than four hundred professional foresters as the dictators of cutting practice, with the result that Sweden to a very large extent is taking out only the increment and leaving her forest capital in- tact. This is not tr
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