Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - V. Forestry
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has been proofread at least once.
(diff)
(history)
Denna sida har korrekturlästs minst en gång.
(skillnad)
(historik)
is characteristic to notice how calculations vary in
different places. In the east, in the provinces of Kuopio
and St. Michel, the necessary quantity per head is
reckoned at ten cubic metres, while in the south-west it
is only six. On a peasant farm in the comparatively
advanced province of Nyland, it is still reckoned
necessary to use 123 cubic metres per annum, while for a
town house 14 is considered sufficient. In the interior
of Vasa the amount is 190 cubic metres, and in the
coast district only 64 per farm. Notwithstanding
many improvements, such as better-made ovens and
so on, waste is still the rule, and we find the same
thing in all countries where timber is plentiful and its
value small.
The old agricultural method of which we have
spoken, which obtains a few harvests and some pasture
afterwards by burning over the forest lands, was
certainly false economy. In a large part of the country
this method has entirely changed the character of
the forests. This is the case in the old district of
Savolaks, that is in the existing provinces of St.
Michel and Southern Kuopio, and also in other parts
of the country. Instead of dense pine woods we find
woods of birch with a few pines, and more aspen trees,
and the wavy-leaved alder. It is not till the
birch-trees are thirty or forty years old that the woods begin
to grow thin, and are open enough to leave room for a
new growth of fir and pine, especially fir. The aspen
leaves sufficient room when it is twenty years old, the
alder not till it is eighty or a hundred. Usually,
however, where this burning has prevailed, the deciduous
forest has not been allowed to attain such an age. It
may be right for the Legislature to take up the matter
and try to abolish this old and evil practice, as it has
done by the law of 1886, already referred to, which
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
