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VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
Marking trees for felling.
Finally, a change of opinion became prevalent in England, when that
country’s need of timber for different industrial purposes became essentially greater.
Considerable reductions were made in the custom-duty on timber in 184*2 and
1851. That duty was furthrr reduced again in 18(50, so that it only amounted
to one or two shillings per load, and at last is was entirely abolished in 1866.
With this measure the Swedish timber export gained a market, sufficiently exten-
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