. North American forests and forestry [microform] : their relations to the national life of the American people. Forests and forestry; Forests and forestry; Forêts et sylviculture; Forêts et sylviculture. I 156 North American Forests and Forestry In silvicultural operations is higher than it is in Germany or France. Just how much higher, it does not matter for our purposes. But American labor is more effective than European. In nearly a'l industries it is a well-known fact that a work- ingman in the United States accomplishes more work in the same time than his fellow in Europe. There is no re
. North American forests and forestry [microform] : their relations to the national life of the American people. Forests and forestry; Forests and forestry; Forêts et sylviculture; Forêts et sylviculture. I 156 North American Forests and Forestry In silvicultural operations is higher than it is in Germany or France. Just how much higher, it does not matter for our purposes. But American labor is more effective than European. In nearly a'l industries it is a well-known fact that a work- ingman in the United States accomplishes more work in the same time than his fellow in Europe. There is no reason to doubt that the same rule will hold good in forestry work. In addition, we may count on the usual labor-saving devices, as soon as Yankee ingenuity has been turned upon silvicul- tural problems. Consequently we may expect a counter-weight to the apparently greater cheapness of European labor. In another regard we have the advantage of Europe. That is the value of the land. Five dollars an acre is considered a pretty high price to pay for timber-land in the United States, while immense tracts can be had for far less than that. In Central Europe values are very much higher, if we except mountainous regions where forests are maintained less for the revenues they will yield than for the indirect benefit to be derived from them. It is plain, therefore, that there can be little, if any, difference in the average cost of maintaining forests for continuous crops in the United States and Central Europe under the same sy.'-'om of management. But can the Euro- pean forester expect a substantially higher return from forests grown under approximately similar conditions ? This question must be answered principally with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bruncken, Ernest, b. 1865. New York; London :
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