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without restriction, exist, sometimes to the great detriment of 

 plantations and young growth. 



Das Sammcln von Beer en und Pilzen in den preussischen Forsten. 

 Zeitschrift fur Forst-u. Jagdwesen, January, 1909, pp. 49-54. 



The city of Eberswalde has just succeeded 

 Value in buying off the rights of user in its city 



of forest, which gives an insight into the bane- 



Rights ful effects of these old servitudes on forest 



of management. There were 316 house 



User. owners who had rights to secure their fuel 



from the communal forest. These rights 

 have been bought off for $125,000, and it is estimated that through 

 improved utilization, i. e. increased use of wood as building ma- 

 terial instead of fuel, this capital investment will pay 6£ per cent. 



Silva, April 16, 1909, p. 268. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY. 



It is of interest to learn something about 

 Results the smaller forest administrations of Ger- 



in many, which by the fact of their smallness 



Brunswick. show often relatively better results than the 



larger ones. 

 The forest area of the dukedom of Brunswick under State con- 

 trol comprises 202,180 acres, which in 1905-6 brought a net yield 

 of $638,715 or $3.15 per acre, the expenditures having been 

 $2.60. That even on this small area conditions must be quite 

 varied appears from the fact that the acre yield varied in different 

 districts from 57 cents to $8.94. 



The total cut was 456,000 cubic feet of workwood of which 73 

 per cent, coniferous, besides 8.74 million cubic feet of fuelwood, 

 altogether 7.8 cubic feet per acre. Prices for workwood, rang- 

 ing from 15.4, for larch logs to 2.2 cents for spruce poles, averaged 

 10.2 cents or $1.47 per acre; the cost of wood cutting, etc., was 

 1.2 cents per cubic foot. Around $25,000 were received for by- 

 products. 



Plantations, including nursery expenses, required a round 

 $50,000, or 23.4 cents per acre of forest, and road building nearly 



