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present is $2 per acre. The rise in prices during this period 

 was slow during the first 20 years namely 8 percent, then very 

 rapid, reaching in 1900 a figure 64 percent higher than in 1868, 

 and in 1903, 45 percent higher. During the 15 years from 1888, 

 since when the general advance in wood prices is noted, the rate 

 of increase has been at the compound rate of 2}^ percent per 

 annum, while during the 20 years preceding, the rate of increase 

 was about i percent. Although the rise in prices accounts in 

 part for the increase in the net yield, improvement in forest 

 conditions, means of transportation, etc., exercise the greater 

 influence, for while prices setting those prevailing in 1868 as 

 100, rose to 145, the net yield rose from 100 to 267 in 1903. 



Amtliche Mitteilungen aus der Abteilung fi'ir Forsten des Konigl. 

 Preuisischen Ministeriums filr Landwirtschaft, Domdnen und Forsten, 

 1900-1903. Berlin 1905. 67 pp. 



The second largest forest administration 

 Bavaria of Germany, with 2,041,455 acres of pro- 



ductive area, (270,000 acres unproductive) 

 reports for the year 1903 a cut of 54.4 cu. ft. per acre ; a net 

 yield of 7.7 million dollars or $3.72 per acre, the price per cubic 

 foot of wood having been 7.6 cents on the average, workwood 

 bringing 11)^ cent and fuelwood ^Vi cent. In addition to wood 

 sales, other sources of income increased the revenue by $325,000 

 or 14 cents per acre. For plantations only, $4.00,000 or less than 

 20 cents per acre, were spent, and nearly the same amount for 

 roadbuilding. 



Although Persia is not supposed to be a 

 Persian forest country, its export of forest products 



Forests reaches nearly one million dollars, consist- 



ing of cedar, oak, walnut and palm for 

 parquette, and some firewood, mostly to Russia. The Elburs 

 mountains in the northern part to the coast of the Caspian sea, 

 contain still some valuable forest areas, mostly belonging to pri- 

 vate owners and mostly unworked, except in the more accessible 

 portions, where they are devastated by roughest exploration. 

 Palm is nearly exhausted. Cedar, which is found in limited local- 

 ities, is there used for all building purposes. Persian Oak is 

 noted for quality and size. 



Der Waldreichtunt Persiens. Allgemeiue Forst- und Jagdzeitung, Jan., 

 PP- 35-136. 



