352 Forestry Quarterly 



Two thirds of the total forest area is occupied by coppice and 

 composite forest, only one third is in timber. Only 20 per cent 

 is coniferous, and most of the timber forest, 58.9 per cent of its 

 possessions, is in the hands of the State. Besides 9.3 per cent of 

 the State property is in process of conversion from coppice to 

 timber. 



The production is poor, only 35.7 cubic feet per acre, of which 

 only 28.6 per cent is workwood (as against 50-t- cubic feet and 

 40.6 per cent for Germany). The production in the State forests 

 is only slightly higher than the average, namely 38 cubic feet, with, 

 however, a higher workwood per cent, namely 36.2. Per capita, 

 the workwood production is only 6 cubic feet, less than half that 

 of Germany. Yet the importation is not large and very variable 

 from year to year, between $20 and $50 milHon ; in 1911, 70 million 

 cubic feet were imported, which brings the total workwood con- 

 sumption to around 8 cubic feet, as compared with around 20 

 cubic feet in Germany, which imports (without wooden ware) 

 around $80 to $90 million. 



The reviewer, then, gives details regarding the forest areas in 

 the departments at present occupied by the German army, and in 

 another section those of the more important other forest terri- 

 tories. The occupied territory comprises over 5 million acres in 9 

 departments. These detail descriptions are of interest only by the 

 incidental information on forest conditions and productivity, 

 which, however, in the form given do not lend themselves to 

 generalization. 



The most densely forested departments of the occupied terri- 

 tory are the Ardennes, Meuse (Argonnes), Meurthe-et-Moselle, 

 and Vosges ; the latter with 37 per cent. The Pyrenees, Alps and 

 Jura are the forestally important districts outside the war country. 

 Corsica is also briefly described. 



Die neue Forstslatistik Frankreichs. Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt, 

 January, February, 1916, pp. 18-26, 84-98. 



The usual tabulation of the financial re- 

 Saxon Forest suits of the Saxon State Forest adminis- 

 Finance tration, given in great detail for every 



revier and district, for the year 1913, ex- 

 hibits the following totals : 



