THE QUESTION OF FORESTRY II5 



As regards the utilization of the woods in Old Serbia there are exact 

 data only for the domanial forests. Those for the forests in private owner- 

 ship are no more than approximately accurate. 



Only summary data are available as to sylviculture in the recently 

 occupied territory. Immediately after the occupation a commission was 

 nominated to study sylviculture in the new territory. The departmental 

 forest administrations, formed at the same time, were charged with the 

 preparation of a pro\dsional cadaster. The reports of this commission and 

 these administrative bodies contain data as to the condition of sylvicul- 

 ture in the new territor}^ but having been collected in only one year they 

 cannot be more than summary and approximately accurate. 



§ I. Extent of woodlands and varieties of timber. 



Old Serbia. — Old Serbia has an area of 4,830,260 hectares (i). Of 

 this the woods occupy 1,517,000 hectares, that is 31.4 per cent., and they 

 comprise every species of tree which grows in Central Europe but espe- 

 cially beeches, oaks, Scotch and spruce firs and juniper-trees. 



Beeches occupy 60 per cent, of all the woodland and are most numerous 

 in the north. The fir woods which cover only 12 per cent, of the territory 

 are most frequently found in the west (departments of Uzice, Ciacik and 

 Kruscievaz) . The oak woods form 23 per cent, of the woodland and are 

 in the south (departments of Kruscievaz, Nish and Toplitza). This distri- 

 bution is however not absolute but comparative : all the species enumera- 

 ted may be said to exist all over the country. 



More than half the woodlands — 60 per cent. — is formed of mixed 

 trees. There are woods of beeches and oaks, and of oaks, beeches and firs. 

 Only 40 per cent, of the woodlands consist of trees of a single kind. 



All the woods of Old Serbia are mature and ready to be cut. 



The most imi)ortant wooded zones are the following : 



i) In the east : 



a) Miroci, a beach wood of 27,000 hectares : 

 h) Deli-Jovan, a beech wood of 7,000 hectares ; 

 c) The wooded territory between the Porecika and the Danube 

 and between the lines joining the towns of Golubaz, Despotovatz and Bol- 

 jevatz, all beech wood and extending over 120,000 hectares. 



2) In the west : 



a) Maljen, a wood of beeches, oaks and firs having an area of 20,000 

 hectares ; 



b) Bozania, a wood of 15,000 hectares, of beeches and oaks ; 



c) Tara, a fir wood of about 25,000 hectares. 



3) In the south-west : 



a) Gocz, a wood of mixed firs on the slope and of beeches and oaks, 

 having an area of more than 20,000 hectares. 



(i) 1 hectare == 2 acres i rood 35.383 poles. 



