382 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



Sizes 2 2}4 3 3}4 4 4 ^ inch top 



Proportion used 3 15 45 20 12 5 per cent 



Increase in price per 100 feet... 50 58 71 89 114 95 per cent 

 Relative increase in price per 



ton of coal 3 5 7 10 15.2 16.8 cents 



Averaging the last row of figures gives the increase in price of 

 coal due to increased wood price as 9.5 cents. 



Transactions Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, January, 1917, pp. 70-71. 



As in peace time, the government of Baden 

 Baden has published in 1916 the statistics for the year 



Statistics 1914, giving an insight into conditions just be- 



fore the war. 



Since 1878, remarkable to tell, the forest area has increased 11.8 

 per cent, to 1,354,145 acres. Of this, IT. 2 per cent is state property, 44 

 per cent municipal, and 38.8 per cent private and corporation property. 

 Of the 247,000 acres of state property, nearly 9,000 acres are in farms. 

 The wood product per acre was 95 cubic feet (as against 61 cubic 

 feet in 1878), of which nearly 30 per cent came from thinnings. The 

 workwood per cent (our log material) had increased to 50 per cent, 

 as against 30 per cent in 1878. Nearly 65 per cent is coniferous mate- 

 rial. The gross sale value of the harvest (cut in the woods) was 

 $1,750,000, or somewhat over 7 cents per cubic foot. An income from 

 by-products of some $64,000 is recorded, of which nearly half for litter 

 for bedding. 



During the period from 1881 to 1914, the per acre income for 

 wood has grown 132 per cent ; namely, from $3.94 to $9.12, one-third 

 of which increase is due to increased utilization and two-thirds to 

 price increment. At the same time costs have increased to nearly 40 

 per cent of receipts, nevertheless, the net result per acre has increased 

 from $2.35 to $5.52, or 135 per cent, or 3.75 per cent per annum. The 

 expenditures were distributed on administration 24.3 per cent, on 

 improvements 20.3 per cent, and 55.4 per cent on operation. 



These data refer to the state forests. The municipal forests, being 

 mostly under state management, show only slightly lower returns, the 

 gross wood income of all amounting to around 4.6 million dollars. 



It is interesting to note that less than 1 per cent of the total forest 

 area was artificially reforested and that nearly 12 per cent of the 2,000 



