Periodical Literature. 119 



Of the expenditures the leading ones for planting and road 

 building were as follows: 



Planting Road-building 



1910 32c per acre 30c per acre 



191 ' 33c per acre 33c per acre 



Fires in 1910, 42 in number destroyed i acre in 18,000 in 1910, 

 but in 191 1, 237 fires destroyed i acre in 4326 of State forests. 



Mitteilungen aus der Staats forstverwaltung Bayerns. Allgemeine Forst- 

 und Jagdzeitung, November, 191 3, pp. 382-383. 



According to the Proceedings of the 

 Finnish Finnish Forestry Association, the wood in- 



Statistics. dustry of Finland (on 50 million acres or 



63 per cent, of total land area) has in- 

 creased during 1910, by over 25 per cent, to around $34,000,000. 

 There were manufactured into buttons and spools over 12 mil- 

 lion cubic feet of birch, the products being worth over $1,200,000. 

 Ground pulp with $4 million; chemical pulp with nearly $5 

 million and altogether paperstock with $15 million was manu- 

 factured. The wood industry represents 29.5 per cent of all 

 industries, the paper industry 15.4 per cent, or altogether 45 

 per cent. 



Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt, April, 1913, p. 220. 



According to an article in the Revue Scien- 



Forests tifique the wooded area in Alsace-Lorraine 



of comprises 1,111,950 acres or 31 per cent. 



Alsace-Lorraine. of the total area as compared with 27 per 



cent, for the entire German Empire and 



18 per cent, for France. This wooded area has not varied since 



1871. Two-thirds of the species are broad leaved trees, beech, 



oak and others and the remainder conifers of which one-third 



are pine and two-thirds spruce and fir. 308,875 acres are treated 



by coppice and coppice under standards, and 370,650 acres as 



high forest. The total annual cut averages 21 million cubic feet 



and the annual production per acre has increased from 44 cubic 



