338 Forestry Quarterly. 



buying out rights of user, purchase of properties and certain other 

 improvements, the latter reducing the total net income to 17.7 

 million dollars. 



It is interesting to note that in the decade 1 900-9 the income 

 for wood alone rose at the annual rate of 3 per cent, compound, 

 fuel wood, which represents about one-third of the whole in 

 value, maintaining almost the same rate as the workwood. 



At the same time the expenditures in the last decade increased 

 at the rate of over 4 per cent., improvement of salaries probably- 

 accounting for most of this increase. 



The personnel of the local administration consists of 33 Ober- 

 forstmeister, 97 Forstrate, 840 Oberforster, 5,157 Forster and 

 some 18 other officials. 



The cut on the 6.643 million acres of forestland is placed at 

 357 million cubic feet, or less than 54 cubic feet per acre, of which 

 30 per cent, "not controlled." 



Allgemeine Forst- u. Jagdzeitung. March, 191 1. Pp. 103-106. 



The State forests of Austria are not very 



Austrian extensive; including some pastures and 



Statistics. fields the State property comprises around 



2.8 million acres, of which nearly one-third 



is unproductive. The annual cut at present is 45 cubic feet per 



acre of forest land, 53% workwood, which under the unfavorable 



site conditions is considered very good. The net income for 191 1 



is estimated at $950,000 in addition to free wood and other rights 



of user which are valued at over $300,000. The income per 



acre, including this value of the rights of user, is hardly 80 cents, 



and without counting those rights less than 63 cents. 



There are 197 officials of the higher grade and 1,082 of the 

 lower grade in the administrative service. 



In addition there are 388 technical attaches to the political ad- 

 ministration of the provinces to supervise the forest policy of the 

 country and to participate in the administration of the meliora- 

 tion fund of 1.6 million dollars and in the reboisement work. 



Centralblatt f. d. g. Forstwesen. January, 1911. Pp. 43-47- 



