Sio Forestry Quarterly. 



menl, lasting 8 weeks in two sessions, also fire ranger courses of 

 one to two weeks duration. 



A triangulation is still in progress under federal authority, but 

 forest surveys are also at least checked by it, and especially the 

 segregation of protective forests, which are made by the cantons. 



The subvention for reboisement work represented in 1910 over 

 one-half the actual outlay of nearly $150,000. An interesting 

 educational feature is an excursion of forest officials through the 

 Confederation to which the government contributes. 



Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir Forstwesen. Jan., Feb., May, 191 1, pp. 

 21-29. 55, 57-64, 157-160. 



A very comprehensive account largely in 

 Statistics tabular form of the results of management 



of through the 20-year period of 1885-1905 



Bern of the cantonal forests of Bern is of inter- 



State Forests. est in showing how management of a small 

 property pays. The area involved is only 

 34,300 acres, having increased through purchase by 2,000 acres 

 in that period, its value for taxation purposes being $3.2 million. 

 The growing stock is placed at 2,860 cubic feet per acre and the 

 yield at 57 cubic feet. These low figures are accounted for by 

 the large area of newly forested (purchased) lands. The aver- 

 age rotation in 1885 was 100 years, but in 1905 had been in- 

 creased to 114 years, due to the need of the protective alpine 

 forest. O'f the 60 cubic feet of average cut, 43 per cent, was 

 taken in thinnings. While in the first decade the workwood per 

 cent, was 29, in the second decade it had increased to 38. The 

 price movement is interesting. A sudden jump of prices in 1876 

 was followed by depression with lowest level in 1884, then fol- 

 lowed a steady rise for the 20 years from 6.6 cents per cubic 

 foot to 10.3 cents in 1905, a rise of 3^ per cent, in gross receipts, 

 meanwhile the logging cost also rose from 1.5 to 2.4 cents. Alto- 

 gether expenses rose from $64,000 in the average in the first 

 decade to $81,000 in the second, but the net yield from $111,400 

 to $144,200 ; in either case 64 per cent, of the gross income. 

 Great differences in cost and returns are shown in different dis- 

 tricts. In Bern itself, for instance, the net yield is 71 per cent, 

 of the gross or $6.90 per acre and year, while in a mountain dis- 

 trict the net yield represents only 43 per cent, and $1.44. 



