II 6 SERBIA - AGRICUI^TURAI. ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



b) Golija, Cemerono and Copoanic woods, which occupy together 

 70,000 hectares and are of mixed firs and oaks. 



4) In the sonth-east : 



Jastrebaz, TopHza, Kukaviza, Suva Planina and Stara Planina, woods 

 of mixed oaks and beeches which have a combined area of 130,000 

 hectares. 



New Serbia. — New Serbia has an area of 3,800,000 hectares, of 

 which 570,000 hectares or 15 per cent, are wooded. 



It should be noted that in a period which is not yet very remote New 

 Serbia. was extremely rich in woods. During the last ten or fifteen years 

 they have'^been burnt and destroyed by private persons and by govern- 

 ment agents, by the former in order to gain pasturage for live stock and by 

 the latter in order better to get rid of the comitadjis who infested the 

 country-. 



The commission nominated b}^ the vSerbian government, to study the 

 condition of sylviculture in New Serbia, has established that 22,800,000 

 hectares — that is 60 per cent, of the woodland — are fitted exclusively 

 for sylviculture which might become a verj' lucrative branch of industry. 

 The commission has proposed that all this land be reforested. 



In respect of the quality of the timber New Serbia is like Old Serbia : 

 the same trees are found although in slightly different proportions. 



In New Serbia the beech and oak woods are most numerous. They 

 cover almost equal areas and constitute together 80 per cent, of the wood- 

 land. The fir woods occupy only 15 per cent and are met with most fre- 

 quently in the south (woods of Morihovo, Marijano and Malesc). 



Most of the woods are mixed (woods of beeches and oaks, woods of 

 firs and beeches). Woods of a single species of tree are very rare (Zlabar, 

 Garvan, Korituic and the mountainous summits of Morihovo and Marijano) 



The most important wooded zones are the following : 



i) In the north : 



a) Zlatar, a fir wood having an area between 6,000 and 7,000 

 hectares ; 



b) Jarut, a wood of beeches and oaks, having an area between 4,000 

 and 5,000 hectares ; 



c) Slona Gora, a fir wood of from 3,000 to 4,000 hectares ; 



d) Rogosma, a wood of oaks and beeches of from 12,000 to 15,000 

 hectares ; 



e) Copaonic, a wood of oaks and beeches — 15,000 to 20,000 hectares ; 



f) Ciciaviza, a wood of beeches and oaks of 10,000 hectares. 



g) Prapastiza, oaks and beeches — 12,000 to 15,000 hectares. 

 2) In the east : 



a) Lisaz, a wood of beeches and oaks of from 4,000 to 5,000 

 hectares ; 



b) Placiacavita. a wood of oaks and beeches of from 15,000 to 16,000 

 hectares ; 



c) Garvan and Goben, woods of beeches and oaks having a combined 

 area of from 6,000 to 8,000 hectares. 



