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the productive 2,019,500 acres produced at the rate of 84 cubic 

 feet or $5.60 for the wood alone. The workwood per cent, was 

 56, and the average value of it not quite 12 cents, while fuel- 

 wood sold at 4 2-3 cents per cubic foot. 



The total net yield was $7,454,000 or $3.24 per acre over all. 

 Planting cost was 32 cents, road expenses a little less. An un- 

 usual fire loss occurred; 202 fires, 26 through locomotives, de- 

 stroyed over 2,000 acres, or i in every 2,272 acres. 



In the same year the municipal forests produced only $2.88 

 per acre. 



An extensive tabulation and discussion on wood prices shows 

 the great variation of prices in different localities, e. g. the high- 

 est price was paid for oak, namely $2.08 per cubic foot for the 

 best, but in other parts as low as 61 cents; for beech the limits 

 lie between 29 and 12 cents. The highest price for pine logs 

 was 26 cents, the lowest, in another locality, 17 cents. No influ- 

 ence of the increased cut on prices was noted. 



Logging cost also varies greatly from f to if cents per cubic 

 foot. 



Very full statistics of labor employment are given. Total 

 labor-days were 4,811,964, or a little over two days per acre, or 

 about one full laborer to every 140 acres. 



While theoretically 16,040 full laborers represent the labor 

 requirement, actually 73,620 persons had longer or shorter em- 

 ployment in the woods. The distribution of labor on different 

 jobs appears from the following calculation. For 250 acres of 

 forest area there were required 586 days labor, of these 328 for 

 logging; 87 for roadbuilding, 136 for cultures, 35 for other work. 



A significant fact is reported regarding private forests, namely 

 that 45,000 acres were reforested in the last 13 years. 



Mitteitwugen aus der Staatsforstverwaltung Bayerns. Allgemeine 

 Forst- und Jagd Zeitung. August, 191 2. Pp. 284-286. 



Baden The official statistics of the forest adminis- 



Statistics tration of Baden for 1910 show that in the 



last 32 years the principal yield of wood 

 has increased by 73 per cent., that of inter- 

 mediary yields by 89 per cent., and the total yield by 75 per cent. 

 7.5 per cent, of which are shown to be during the last year. So 

 that now the total cut per acre has reached 107.5 cubic feet per 



