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present time, owing to the war, prices are higher, and large quan- 

 tities are being sold at from £3 10^. to £4 per ton on rail. 



S. J. R. 

 The Journal of the Board of Agriculture. February 25, 1915, pp. 1032-1037. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



Dr. Wimmer reports that in 1910, 21 per 

 Wood cent of the wood movement (5.2 million 



Movements tons) was on the interior waterways, of 



in which there are about 10,000 miles; rail- 



Germany roads (36,000 miles) transported 19.2 mil- 



lion tons. The water transportation repre- 

 sents 44 per cent of inland traffic, 55 per cent of import and only 

 1 per cent export, while the railroads handled 83 per cent as 

 inland traffic, 13 per cent of import and 4 per cent of export of 

 wood. While of the water traffic 30 per cent was logs, 32 per cent 

 mill product, 40 per cent paper pulp and pulpwood, 8 per cent 

 mine timber ; the railroad traffic handled 23 per cent in logs, 38 in 

 mill product, 39 per cent of the other materials. The main centers 

 of consumption are Saxony, the Rhenish provinces of Prussia and 

 Berlin. Bavaria is an export country with 1 million tons, so is 

 Wiirttemberg. On the other hand, Baden and Alsace-Lorraine 

 had to import. The great lumber market of this region is Mann- 

 heim, but lately Karlsruhe and Kehl are running strong 

 competition. 



Germany imports annually over 5 million tons, of which 49 

 per cent on waterways, 27 per cent by sea, 24 per cent by rail. 

 Austria furnishes 29 per cent, Russia and Finland 54 per cent, 

 Sweden 7 per cent and America 6 per cent. Exports comprise 

 only 350,000 tons (outside of manufactures), mainly from East 

 Prussia to Great Britain and lumber to Switzerland. 

 AUgemeine Forst- und Jagdzeitung, June, 1914, p. 215. 



In 1908, a great commotion was made in 

 Bavarian the legislative assembly of Bavaria, charg- 



Statistics ing that old stock was allowed by the forest 



administration to accumulate in the woods, 

 the felling budgets being too low (see F.Q., vol. VII, pp. 91 ff.). 

 A commission of experts was instituted to ascertain the correct- 

 ness of the claim and the amount of surplus. At the same time 



