148 Forestry Quarterly 



For 1911, the budget called for 9,571,391 cubic faden* 



from former years remained unsold 6,195,361 



hence there should have been cut. . 15,766,752 

 but actually there was only cut. . 7,233,088 



hence remained unsold 8,543,664 



Presumably, this amount should be cut under sustained yield, 

 but does not find takers. 



The total income of the forest administration for 1911 was 

 around $42 million, the expenditures being $13.5 million, leaving 

 $29.5 million net, an increase of $5 million over 1902. If we 

 take the European figures by themselves, this works out about 

 12 cents per acre net. The best result in Poland was, however, 

 in the neighborhood of $4 for a whole district. 



The purchasers of timber still pay a tax for reforestation, 

 preferring to forfeit the charge than reforest themselves, as 

 was originally intended. Here, as in the cutting, the plans do not 

 materialize ; nearly 2 million acres that ought to have been refor- 

 ested remained unplanted by 1911, and of the budget of $63,000 

 set out for planting other areas than that of the timber mer- 

 chants, also only $20,000 were spent. 



Stealing timber is the rule of the day. In 1911, 733,723 cases 

 of trespass had to be adjudicated, the damage aggregating $4 

 miUion with penalties $4.7 million, but only 350,000 cases were 

 settled and $850,000 collected. Forest fires occasioned nearly one 

 million dollars of damage. The conservation law now has force 

 on over 150 million acres. There are 67 committees in charge 

 with a membership of 662, with 12 secretaries, 64 foresters and 

 5569 police officers employed in carrying it out. The activity of 

 this service in 1911 is expressed by the declaration of protective 

 forest of 25,000 acres ; the approval of working plans for 34,000 

 acres protective forest and for 1,700,000 acres of other forest; 

 the ordering of planting for over 100,000 acres ; the approval of 

 change of use for 570,000 acres, and the prevention of devastating 

 fellings on 340,000 acres. Over 1,250,000 acres protective and 

 planted were freed of taxes. 



* 1 cubic faden equals about 220 cubic feet solid. 



