1884.] DB. LYONS, M.P., AND FORESTBY ABROAD. 327 



ExPENDiTUEE. — The costs of administration, including employes 

 wages and pensions, and employes' dwellings, &c., as well as the 

 general expenses connected with the maintenance of the forests, &c., 

 will be found in Appendix D, and the following table shows the 

 average expenses per acre, all payments and outgoings included. 



Net returns amount, with certain fluctuations (vide AppendLx A), 

 to about 45 per cent, of the gross returns, showing, as do the other 

 figures, a sensible falling off since the year 1876, when they amounted 

 to about 52 per cent. The percentage appears, however, to have 

 been latterly fairly maintained, and if it never reaches the standard 

 attained in 1876, it is owing, amongst other causes, to several fresh 

 indirect expenses connected with the new Provinces, which have 

 been borne by the Administration. They (the net returns) amount 

 on an average to about four shillings per acre. 



Organization. 

 In 1880 the Official Eeport showed that the number of employes in 

 the pay of the Administration amounted to 4,617, of whom — 

 122 were Head Foresters, 

 680 „ Foresters, 

 3,714 „ Keepers, Watchers, &c., 

 making an average of 



1 Head Forester to every 54,500 acres 

 1 Forester „ 9,500 „ 



1 Keeper, &c. „ 1,795 „ 



Special attention is drawn to the expenses in connection ivifh the 

 making of roads in the woods, as well as other outlays in which 

 money has been sunk, and it is asserted that all the money which 

 has been spent in this way has paid itself over and over again, as the 

 ultimate worth of forest produce depends largely on the facilities 

 which exist for transporting that produce. 



Introduction of Foreign Trees. 



The desirability of attempting to introduce other than indigenous 

 trees into Prussia has also claimed the attention of the authorities, 

 who point out that, in the event of the experiment being attended 

 with success, not only would less wood have to be imported, but that 

 the revenue from their department would be considerably increased. 



