PERIODICAL LITERATURE ()o5 



at $62,140,000 (normal exchange). The permanent expenditures 

 amount to $20,357,000. Extraordinary expenditures add $121,000, 

 making the total surplus around $44,000,000. This makes an average 

 net income of $5.82 per acre, as against $2.01 in 1913, and $4 in 1918. 

 Receipts from wood alone amount to $5(5,120.000. Cost of administra- 

 tion for personnel is $6,188,000. Other administration costs are around 

 $12,000,000. For schools and research $95,200 approximately. The 

 number of officials totals 0,500 men, namely, 33 Oberforstmeister, 85 

 Forstraete (inspectors), 822 Oberforsters (supervisors), 111 financial 

 agents, 5,400 under foresters, 45 forest guards, and 13 others. Log- 

 ging costs are estimated at $8,330,000, which is $2,213,000 more than 

 the year before. B. E. F. 



Der Hauslialt der Prciissischcn Forstverwaltung fiir das Rechnungsjahr 1919. 

 Forstwissenschaftliches CentralblaU, Heft 8 and 9, 1919, pages .S27-331. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



In 1913 von Tubeuf of the University of 



Tiibcnf's Visit Munich made a trip through the various forest 



to the regions of North American. His "Descriptions 



United States and Pictures from North American Forests'.' in 



periodical form began in 1916 and have now 



been completed. 



It is always interesting and instructive "to see ourselves as others 

 see us." So as we turn the pages of Tubeuf's story we find that what 

 is commonplace to us impresses him strongly, and that to which we 

 point with pride he often views with disapproval. 



For the most part his narrative is appreciative rather than critical. 

 He begins with the Eastern Seaboard and then works his way slowly 

 westward. In his installment entitled "From Chicago to the Rocky 

 Mountains," we find him describing the Prairies, Great Plains, and 

 th© Dry Land Experiment Station of Nebraska University. He seems 

 to have been particularly impressed with travel by Ford "at a frenzied 

 pace" and the frame houses with porch and the inevitable rocking 

 chair. 



Next he describes the coniferous forests of the Rocky Mountains, 

 which he reached at Colorado Springs. ' He climbed Pikes Peak and 

 is impressed with the lack of animal life excepting the chipmunks. 



He then, at considerable length, develops his observations as to the 

 occurrence of two dift'erent forms of Douglas fir. which he believes 



