88 FORESTEY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [Dec. 



The official investigation thus instigated by him regarding the 

 actual extent of the timber supplies available in the Dominion of 

 Canada is not yet completed. Tlie following table gives the most 

 recent returns as to the areas, in statute acres, of the principal 

 countries of Europe and the areas occupied by woods and forests. 

 A summary for America is also appended from the most recent 

 returns of tlie United States Department of Agriculture : — 



WOODS AND FOKESTS IN EUEOI'E AND AMERICA. 



Russia in Europe, 



Norway, 



Sweden, 



Denmark, . 



Germany, . 



Holland, 



Belgium, 



France, 



Italy, 



Austria I'roper, . 



Hungary, . 



Area in statute "Woods ami Forests 



acres. acres. 



1,244,367,351 527,426,510 



76,716,965 18,920,509 



100,514,956 42,365,938 



8,573,396 398,877 



133,075,923 34,181,974 



8,009,328 532,714 



7,280,362 1,073,452 



30,557,281 22,687,716 



73,191,882 9,031,310 



69,388,482 23,280,412 



83,205,120 22,514,450 



AVOODS AND EOKESTS IN ENGLAND, 1881. 



In Grazing counties, . . . . . 761,892 



In Corn counties, ..... 704,146 



England, . . \ f 1,466,038 



Scotland (say), . [■ Total area, 77,000,000 } 750,000 



Ireland (say), . ) (350,000 



America, .... 2,291,355,048 380,000,000 



Eroni the forest areas of Europe, available for timber supply, has 

 to be deducted a large percentage, including natural forests which 

 are invaded by swamp, and which also form undergrowth and 

 interlacing of trees, produce rather firewood than jslanks fit for the 

 carpenter. With every deduction, the total area proljably reaches 

 700,000,000 or 800,000,000 acres, of which Patssia alone presents 

 some 500,000,000 acres. Though, as most of the European 

 governments have within the last quarter of a century organised 

 systems of forest conservancy, the above table appears fairly to 

 represent the acreage available for productive forest working in 

 the immediate future, excepting Eussia. But, with perhaps the 

 exception of Sweden and Norway, tlie domestic timber supply 



