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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 7

■ '■ Some: figures > given by Professor Weiss, ol i Manchester University, the other day, are oi , special interest, as they show that in coni trast with the small acreage of Crown wood- ; land in Britain (considerably loss than 100,000 acres) Germany owns some 10,000,000 acres oi ■ State forests, which bring jn a profit of about • lis, per aero, and axe said to give employi ment to nearly 100,000 people Tho wivate ' woodland under cultivation in Great Britain i amounted in 1905 to 2,760,000 acres, and the s total.for,tho British Isles was 3,069,375 ) acres; Still these larger figures of private ■ woods do not bring up the area of forest i land to anything liko tho proportion of other s European countries.... Tho pcrcentago of area i under timber is as follows:—Austria 32 per i cont., Germany 26 per cent., Franco 17 per t cent., Holland 8 por cent., Denmark 7 per ■ cent., England 5.3 per cent., Scotland 4.6 per ) cent., Wales 3.9 per cent., Ireland 1.5 poi i cent. Only 10' per cent, of tho imports oi , timber aro of n.. nature which could not be i grown in England. Happy the Govcrnvneni 3 which will introduce this .scheme, because Si they see' men behind tho trees, and behind [tho men finglinh country,-homes.