986 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Notes stir les Forets de I'Algeric. By. M. Marc, Inspecteur des 

 Eaux et Forets. Government General de I'Algerie. Direction des 

 Forets. Alger. 1916. Pp. 331. 



This administrative and financial review of forestry in Algeria is 

 perhaps the most complete and painstaking official report of the kind 

 that has been published by any colonial administration. It is a high- 

 class reference work on the administration of Algerian forests, illus- 

 trated with 14 diagrams, with an admirable map of the forests suitable 

 for exploitation, and the established railway systems. The book is 

 divided into eight chapters : 



1. Forest receipts. 



2. Collection of cork oak. 



3. The forests and railway charges. 



4. Forest improvements. 



5. Forest fires. 



6. Measures in favor of the natives. 



7. Alienation of forest land. 



8. Role of the Forest Service in Algeria. 



Of these eight chapters, 2 and 5 contain information of most value 

 to American foresters. 



On January 1, 1915, the French state forests of Algeria totaled 

 2,237,509.46 hectares, divided into three districts: 



Conservation Total {hectares) Cork Oak {hectares) 



Algiers 479,813.31 41,078 



Aran 751,479.46 7,354 



Constantine 1,006,216.69 391,910 



2,237,509.46 440,34? 



In round figures, the forests comprise 5-6/10 million acres of all 

 classes of forest, of which one million acres is cork oak ; thus the 

 valuable cork oak forests comprise only 15 per cent of the total area. 

 But only 275,494 hectares of cork oak were under the control of the 

 conservators, since 164,848 hectares was tied up in long-term contracts 

 so that the State's cork oak areas are but 12 per cent of the total. 

 This proportion is emphasized because during the period 1911-1913 

 the total annual revenue averaged 5,480,636 francs and the cork oak 

 yielded 4,139 francs or eight- elevenths of the total revenue. This 

 proves the justification of the vast expenditures for the protection 

 and improvement of this type of stand. The additional revenue is de- 

 rived from fuel, lumber, ties, tanbark, turpentine and vf^'-'^v.. hunting 



