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wood per cent was slightly higher on the State Forests, although 

 both were about 40 per cent. 



Prices for 1912 were somewhat depressed. The average for all 

 classes of material in the State forests was $17.00 per thousand. 



The average cost of administration for the forests under man- 

 agement was 1 1-3 cents per acre. 



K. W. W. 



Beilrdge zur Forststatistik in Elsass-Lothringen. Forstliches Centralblatt, 

 November, 1914, pp. 601-602. 



A summary gives the following acreage 

 for French forests for 1908 : 



Statistics Hectares. 



p , Federal 1,194.439 



trench, Communes and public establishments., 1,948,632 



Forests. Private, etc 6,738,630 



Total 9,881.701 



This means that 18.06 per cent of France is forested, while the 

 average for the whole of Europe reaches 30.06 per cent. It is 

 interesting to note that there are only nine departments in France 

 where the forested surface exceeds the average per centage for 

 Europe. These departments are: Landes, Var, Gironde, Vosges, 

 Ariege, Belfort, Jura, Haute-Saone, Haute-Mame. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Society Foresti^re de Franche-Comte et Belfort, December, 1913, pp. 272- 

 273. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



With the end of the year 1914, Dr. Ulrich 

 Veteran A'leister, the well-known manager of the 



Retired celebrated Sihlwald (the forest of the city 



of Zurich) for almost 40 years, retired. 

 He studied in Zurich and Giessen, and when in 1875 he assumed 

 the management in the Sihlwald — a forest under good manage- 

 ment since 1680 — a new survey and working plan was begun. 

 The historical development of this interesting forest during over 

 250 years was the subject of Meister's contribution to forestry 

 literature, published in 1883 and 1903. 



Schweizerische Zeitschrift, December, 1914, pp. 336-8. 



