NOTICES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 1 23 



them in accordance with these rules. If the area of the woodland be 

 one hundred hectares or more the Forest Administration must advise 

 concerning the projected rules before the municipal council accepts them. 

 Seme towns however have still no rules of forest economy. 



The following notes shows the importance of the Finnish communal 

 forests to the economy of urban communes. 



The towns of Kjana, Tornea, Kuopio, Gamlakarleb5% Kristinestad, 

 Ekenas, Lovisa, Heinola, Nykarleby, Hango, Kexholm, St. Michel and 

 Xadendal can take from their own forests only all the wood they need for 

 building but they may not sell wood. The towns of Raumo, Brahestad, 

 Jakobstad and Idensalmi take from their own forests all the carpentering 

 wood they need but do not sell any wood. The towns of Uleaborg, Nyslott, 

 N^-stad, Tavastehus, Borga, Kask5, Jyvaskyla and Willmanstrand have 

 sold building wood but have on the other hand made several purchases of 

 wood to meet their own needs. The towns of Joensuu, Vasa, Lahtis, Bjor- 

 neborg and Fredrikshamn have not been able to sell any wood but have 

 been obliged, on the contrary, to bu}^ it. Finally four towns — Kotka, 

 Abo, Sordavala and Mariehamm, have derived no economic profit from 

 their forests. 



If we classify the towns according to the net income they obtain from 

 their forests they should be placed in the following order : 



The first is the town of Jyvaskyla which in the quinquennial period 

 1910-1914 derived from its forests an average net income of 34.73 francs (i) 

 a hectare. The second is the town of Kuopio, if we include in the net in- 

 come the value of the wood with which the town has met its own needs. 

 The year 1914 then yielded a net income of 30.63 francs a hectare, sales 

 alone giving an average net income in this year of 14.63 francs a hectare. 

 Gamlakarley should probably be placed third, and Borga, with its average 

 of 23.42 francs, fourth. There follow Kristinestad — 22.18 francs; 

 S^- Michel — 19. 11 francs; Lovisa 17.81 francs (2); Kasko 15.32 francs; 

 Nadendal — 13.74 francs; Nyslott — 8.79 francs ; Kexholm — 6.14 francs (2); 

 Ekenas — 5.64 francs; Uleaborg — 5.49 francs (2) ; Hango — 3.04 francs; 

 Vasa — 2.44 francs ; Raumo — 2.26 francs (3) ; Lahtis — 2.17 francs (3) ; 

 Tavastehus — 2.21 francs ; Tornea — 2.09 francs ; Kajana — 1.99 francs (2); 

 Joensuu 1.74 francs (3) ; Nykarleby 1.59 francs ; Viborg — 1.22 francs 

 and Bjorneborg — 1.09 francs. The town of Helsingfors suffered a loss 

 of 3 centimes a hectare and that of Fredrikshamm one of 53 centimes a 

 hectare. 



(i) I franc = 9 ^5 d- ^t P^r. 

 {2) Income from sales. 

 (3) In 1914. 



