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MENSURATION, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT. 



Dr. Centgraf compares in an exhaustive 

 Selection manner two corporation forests in the Black 



vs- Forest as regards their financial results ; the 



Timber one a coppice of hazel, birch, oak, some- 



Forest. what over 100 acres, a remnant of mark 



forest, in the commune of Oberwolfach ; 

 the other, in the commune of Schapbach, nearly 200 acres, or- 

 iginally a baronial estate, for at least 80 years managed carefully 

 as a selection forest of fir and spruce. 



"Private forest — the professional forester shudders, for he 

 thinks of those sad pictures which so many private forests ex- 

 hibit in the German fatherland ; open, crookedly grown stands, 

 deteriorated by removing the litter — this Cinderella of peasant 

 management, compared with an ideal form of selection forest, the 

 love of the peasant." 



The decline of the coppice management is demonstrated by a 

 soil rent calculation for 1871 and for 1912, the rents in the lat- 

 ter year for four dififerent stands being one-half to one-third and 

 less than those obtained forty years ago ; this is explained by 

 rise in wages which have more than doubled, and by the reduc- 

 tion in sale value of the coppice wood, by from 25 to 50 per 

 cent, and for some wood by 100 per cent. The highest soil rent 

 for coppice — tanbark coppice — was in 1912 $2.05, while the ideal 

 timber forest figures $3.87, and for a 120-year rotation still $2.50. 

 Of interest is the record of stock on hand and felling budget in 

 the selection forest for the y^ years as follows, showing constant 

 improvement. 



