Periodical Literature. 489 



Regular receipts, $36,660,000.00 



Regular expenses, 16,160,000.00 



Net income, $20,500,000.00, or just 



about $3 per acre ; the expenditures being 44% of the gross in- 

 come. Besides, there is an account of extraordinary expenses and 

 incomes, largely made up of sales and purchases of forest land; 

 the excess of expenditures over receipts, being $1,013,000.00; 

 $700,000 alone are to be spent on adjusting rights of user. 



Of the receipts, wood sales are predicted to yield 387,176,134 

 cubic feet (57 cu. ft. per acre) at a value of $34,200,000.00 (about 

 9 cents per cu. ft.). Special Uses are estimated to bring in $1,740,- 

 000.00 ; the chase $190,000.00. 



The income for wood has in the decade increased by 43%, but 

 the expenditure by 66% in steady rises. 



Among the expenses there are the interesting items of $60,000 

 for telephones and $310,000 for road building. 



The personnel for the current year comprises : — 



I Oberlandforstmeister ; 5 Landforstmeister ; ^^ Oberforst- 

 meister; 88 Regierungs — and Forstrate; 822 Oberforster and 

 Forstmeister ; 5167 Revierforster and Forster (Ranger); 49 

 Waldwarter (Forest Guards) ; altogether 6165 persons. 



The annual forestry conferences among 18 groups of higher 

 forest officers, described in Forestry Quarterly, Vol. VI, p. 444- 

 445 are to be continued and $4,500 are set aside for additional 

 travel costs arising therefrom. A. B. R. 



Der Etat der Domanen Forst-und landwlrtschaftlichen Verwaltung fiir 

 das Etatsjahr 1914-13. AUgemeine Forst-und Jagd-Zeitung, April, 1914, 

 pp. 140-144. 



Dr. Wimmer reviews a 32 page booklet 



Private Forests by Oberforster Maucke, dealing with the 



of regulations governing privately owned 



Germany. forests in the various states of Germany. 



The publisher is Paul Parey, Berlin. The 



exact title of the book is given below. 



Aside from communal and corporate forests, there are in Ger- 



*For equivalent position in U. S. Forest Service, see " The Prussian 

 Forest Service" Forestry Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. i, p. 48. 



