Periodical Literature 147 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



From the Yearbook of the Russian Forest 



Russian Department for 1911 we quote the follow- 



Forest ing data. The total area of forest under 



Statistics government management was around 260,- 



000,000 acres in Europe, 12,000,000 acres 



in Caucasus, 600,000,000 acres in Asia, but of this 872.000,000 



acres only 50 per cent are real woodland, and only 50 per cent are 



in sole ownership of the government, which controls 132,000,000 



acres of wood area in Europe, about 5,000,000 in Caucasus and 



150,000,000 acres in Asia ; the whole territory being divided into 



1419 supervisorships and 22,156 protective circuits. The size 



of the latter varies from 260,000 to 300,000 acres in Europe, but 



up to 2,500,000 in Asia! For this forest protective service, 



$2,600,000 were spent for the 10,600 guards. The central office 



of the forest department is headed by 13 technical men and 62 



subalterns, besides a council of 9. Other technical men are in 



the forest corps 860, in the local administrations 3262 ; in the 



Forest Institute 42 ; and topographers and surveyors 272 ; a total 



of 4520, of whom 3937 are technical foresters. 



The Forest Institute (only higher forest school) had in 1911 

 647 students. There are 39 lower schools with 737 students, 470 

 of whom receive entirely, 160 partially free, tuition. 



Salaries were improved in 1912; still they are low, the highest 

 $3,000 for the Vice-Inspector down to $250 for "forest conduc- 

 tors" ; supervisors secure from $800 to $1350, besides emolu- 

 ments for houses, traveling expenses, etc., and farm land. Ac- 

 cording to plan 1,000 new supervisorships were to be organized in 

 the first decade after 1900; actually by 1911 only 58 had mate- 

 rialized. 



Of the total wooded area of 450 million acres only about 60 

 million are under working plans, mostly in Europe, and 180 

 million only explored. There are 126 survey parties making 

 working plans, with 662 technical men employed in this work. 



The sale of wood is mainly made on the stump, which is 

 important, since much of the material placed in the budget is 

 not sold. 



