214 Forestry Quarterly. 



the same, namely, 24.7 cents. There were employed 4,029 persons 

 with 439,032 labor days. 



Mitteilungen iiber die Wirtschaftsergebnisse der Herzoglich Braun- 

 schweigischen Forstverwaltung fur das Jahr 1905/6. Zeitschrift fur 

 Forst-u. Jagdwesen, January, 1909, p. 57. 



Another of the smaller forest properties is 



Results that of the dukedom of Mecklenburg 



in Schwerin with 244,410 acres, two-thirds 



Mecklenburg. coniferous, the total gross income of which 



was in 1905-6 $962,000, the net income 

 $527,000 or only $2.15 per acre. The total cut was 15,690,000 

 cubic feet or 65.5 cubic feet per acre, of which hardly one- 

 third was workwood. Wood prices, which for the total cut had 

 averaged 7.8 cents, were in 1906, 8.3 cents per cubic foot. The 

 by-products alone, among which peat and pasture play a promi- 

 nent role, brought nearly $70,000. The chase, in addition netted 

 $21,000 or, including some 24,000 acres of meadows, peat bogs 

 and fields, over 7 cents per acre. 



The enumeration of the game and wild or other animals killed 

 on these 268,000 acres under conservative management should 

 make some of our game preserve owners envious ; 823 stags, 

 2,157 roebuck, 187 boar, 13,074 hares, 8,573 rabbits, 193 geese, 

 3,996 pheasants, 3,286 ducks, 868 woodcock, 20,240 partridge, 

 14,017 thrush, 1,181 other game birds, 1,594 foxes, 301 martins, 

 552 minks, 399 ferrets, 1,933 cats, 1,037 dogs, 5,482 squirrels, and 

 a large number of rapacious birds. 



Wirtschaftsergebuisse der Grossherzoglich Mccklenburg-Schiverinschen 

 Kameralforsten, 1905/6. Zeitschrift fur Forst-u. Jagdwesen, February, 

 1909, p. 121. 



According to the German General Consul, 



Sweden's wood export sales from Sweden in 1906 



Wood and first months of 1907 were active at high 



Exports. prices, then falling off and forcing low 



prices in the fall, the average result being 



however, better than the previous year, although quantities were 



less. Twenty Mark per Petersburg standard (= 165 cu. ft. sawed 



or 120 cu. ft. round wood), say 3 cents per cubic foot, seems to 



be the average price. 



