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private rooms for visitors, while separate buildings are main- 

 tained for office, library, laboratories, etc. 



Yearly, in February, there is a meeting of the Central Com- 

 mittee for investigative work held in St. Petersburg, to which 

 come all directors and assistants at experiment stations, together 

 with professors of forest schools and specialists in allied lines 

 of research, such as plant physiology, ecology, and meteorology, 

 who are specially invited, and if these latter deliver lectures their 

 expenses are paid by the Government. At this meeting the 

 work of the past year and plans for the next year are discussed ; 

 the studies to be carried on during the next year are decided 

 upon and allotments of funds are made for each project. 



There is a Superior Committee on Experimental Work which 

 passes on all reports and decides which are to be published. This 

 committee consists of three members. 



Utiliaation. Russia furnishes one-half of the lumber supply 

 of Great Britain and one-third of that of Germany. Great 

 Britain gets principally Pinus syh'estris and Picea excelsa; Ger- 

 many the same, but in addition some Quercus pedunculata and 

 some Alnus. A large amoimt of wood is exported to Germany 

 for mine timbers, Picea excelsa being the principal species used 

 for this purpose. 



The following is the average scale of timber prices per cubic 

 foot : Oak, 18 to 36 cents ; Spruce, 10 to 22 cents ; Pine, 15 to 25 

 cents; Larch, 12 cents, and Ash, 18 to 55 cents. 



The best grade of pine and oak brings 2,000 rubles per hec- 

 tare^ ($590 per acre) on the stump; average quality for 800 

 rubles per hectare ($236 per acre). Three hundred rubles per 

 hectare ($88 per acre) is the minimum selling price for any 

 timber and this is for such species as birch, aspen, etc. The land 

 cannot be sold. 



Pine is the wood principally used for ties and these are some- 

 times treated with creosote or zinc chloride before they are laid. 

 Larch is also used to some extent. The ties are sold by the cubic 

 foot. An engineering corps has entire charge of the preservative 

 treatment of timber and this is completely outside the jurisdiction 

 of the Forest Service. 



Pinus sylvestris is the chief source of naval stores. The cup 

 and gutter system is used. 



" 1 hectare^2.471 acres. 



