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acres involved were reforested by direct seeding. For roads, an 

 expenditure of around -50 cents per acre is recorded. 



Damage by insects, fungi and fire was negligible, but snow, ice and 

 wind breakage aflfected some 2,000,000 cubic feet of wood. 



Statistische Nachiveisungen aus der Forstvenvaltung des Grossherzogtums Baden 

 fiir das Jakr, 1914. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, January, 1917, 

 pp. 29-31. 



On August T, 1916, there was held the Sec- 

 Russian ond All-Russian Congress of Representatives of 



Exports the Lumber Industry, the council of which has 



issued a report advocating the greater develop- 

 ment of the Russian export trade in forest products after the con- 

 clusion of the European war. " 



The steps suggested as necessary to carry out this scheme comprise 

 the organization of the Russian timber exporters, in order to regulate 

 the manufacture of lumber and to maintain prices in the foreign 

 markets; complete manufacture of exported goods, before export; an 

 accurate survey of Russian timber resources; development of rail 

 transport in the forest regions; cutting of greater quantities of timber 

 from state forests, and the abolition of various limitations imposed by 

 the existing corporation laws, in order to make more attractive the 

 investment of capital in the lumber industry. 



The report points out that previous to the war three-fifths of Rus- 

 sian woods exported were in the form of logs, the manufacture of 

 which was carried out abroad, chiefly in Germany. 



Russia looks to Italy as one of her most important future cus- 

 tomers. It has been estimated that the annual demands of Italy after 

 the war will be about 7,000,000 cubic feet for sleepers, and 700,000 

 cubic feet for telegraph poles alone. The general annual requirements 

 of foreign wood in Italy are about 71,000,000. cubic feet. 



Greece is afso looked upon as a great future market for Russian 

 woods. 



The early development of the Russian walnut trade is predicted, 

 since there is an "unlimited" amount in the Caucasus and Trans- 

 caucasia. 



Russia. Vol. T, No. 7. Nov., 1916, pp. 30-32. 



