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hands; more than half of the State property, one-third of the com- 

 munal, and 30 per cent of the private is timber forest, so that more 

 than half of the 34 per cent of timber forest is after all in private 

 ownership. 



If the statistics of 1878 were reliable, the timber forest has increased 

 since then considerably. In the domain forests the coppice has been 

 reduced to 2.5 per cent. 



The total annual production is given as 237,000,000 cubic feet work- 

 wood and 593,000,000 cubic feet fuelwood, or 35.8 cubic feet per acre 

 on the average, a very low figure compared with the German produc- 

 tion, and the State forests produce not much better than this average, 

 namely, 38.2 cubic feet, of which not quite 37 per cent is workwood, 

 while the average workwood per cent was not quite 30 per cent. That 

 there are single forests which produce as much as three and four times 

 this budget goes without saying, and the author gives a few examples. 



Questions Foresticres de France. Journal Forestier Suisse, July, August, 1917, 

 pp. 113-123. 



The existing practice of timber sales in the 



Logging Indian forest departments is to sell on the stump 



Contracts on a royalty basis. A change is desirable be- 



in cause the government does not secure a fair 



India return in these sales. On the other hand, logging 



on own account for its drawbacks, hence Par- 



nell develops an arrangement which somewhat resembles our jobbers' 



contract. The exploitation work, felling conversion and removal of 



the timber, marked by the forest department, to government sale 



depots, there to be sold by the department, is to be contracted for a 



term of years, say not less than five, to responsible firms, which are 



to employ managers, supervisors approved and in part paid by the 



department, and, of course, be liable to penalties for illicit, careless 



felling, and damage, as hitherto. 



The financial arrangement is rather novel, rhe government is to 

 pay the jobbing firm interest at a fixed rate— 5 per cent is suggested— 

 on all moneys laid out during the year, and in addition a certain agreed 

 percentage— 10 to I2>4 per cent is suggested— of the profits from the 

 sale of the timber, if there are any, but in case of loss to bear, say 

 10 per cent of such loss. A form of contract and a detailed imaginary 

 cost account under such a system is appended. The svstem would of 



