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cannot be accoTintecl adequate to the probable home demand. In 

 France an annual import of 19,000,000 steres is required to make 

 good the annual deficiency. 



RUSSIA. 



Mr. Herbert, in his very able and exhaustive report to Lord 

 Granville, has shown that Eussia cannot be expected to supplement 

 the future timber supplies of Europe much further than at present. 

 In 1880 she exported 34,000,000 roubles worth, but imported 

 herself nearly 10,000,000 roubles worth. 



NOKWAY AND SWEDEX. 



What is to be said, in the light of the official returns, of the 

 presumed inexhaustible supplies from the forests of these northern 

 lands ? Taking the report of the Director of Forests for the period 

 fietween January 1875 and the 30th June 1880, we find that the 

 total area of the public and semi-public forests would amount to 

 9,932,115 ma.al, equal to 76'64 Norwegian square miles of forest 

 land, or 977,018 liektar, equal to 9,776-18 square miles. 



In Sweden the percentage of private forests is immensely greater 

 than those of the Government. " What information there is," says 

 Mr. Greville in his report to Lord Granville, " all tends to show 

 that fifteen years will see their supplies very materially leduced." 

 But more accurate forest surveys for both those countries are 

 urgently needed. 



AUSTKIA AXP HUNGARY. 



The productive area of Austria is 9 3 '5 per cent, of the whole, 

 and the improductive only 65 of the total area. The forests of 

 Austria are of the actual extent of 94-46 7 square kilometers, or 

 31-5 per cent, of the total. The forests of Hungary are 92,742 

 square kilometers, being 28-8 per cent. The grand totals for the 

 empire and monarchy are 189,209 square kilos., or 30-1 per cent, 

 of the whole. The productive area of the whole thus sums up 

 583,327 square kilos., with 38,679 unproductive, or 93-8 and 6-2 

 per cent, respectively. The total wood export now reaches the 

 large figure of 20,500,000 centners annually. 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



So far as a general system of forestry can be said to exist in the 

 States, it ranges itself under the great department of Agriculture. 

 But its authority is yet too isolated ; the individuality of separate 



