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During the four years from 1904 to 1907 the total export aver- 

 aged per year: 



Planks, Battens, Boards, 884,000 standards. 



Planed Boards, 118,000 standards. 



Staves, 13,000 standards. 



Wood ends, 63,000 Kubik faden. 



Beams and Spars, 292,000 loads. 



Hollander Beams, 17,000 standards. 



Mine props, 240,000 standards. 



This represents about 220,000,000 cubic feet of wood, nearly 

 equal to the entire year's cut of the Prussian State forests of that 

 description of wood. In addition, an export of 500,000 tons of 

 pulp (in 1908, 114,000 tons more than the previous year) and 

 two and a half million dollars worth of manufactures bring the 

 value of the total export to around $52,000,000. It is said that 

 the pulp industry is working without profit to the manufacturer. 



Holsausfuhr Schwedens im Jahre 1907. Allgemeine Forst-u. Jagd- 

 zeitung, 1909, p. 115. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



The Imperial Forest Institute at St. Peters- 

 Forest School burg in 1907 had, according to the official 

 in report, 686 students inscribed, being there- 



Russia. by by far the largest forest school in the 



world. Of these 22 were graduated as 

 foresters of first order, 50 as such of second order. The main- 

 tenance of this institution, outside of student fees, required $101,- 

 260. 



In 1900 an agreement was made between 



Game Germany and England to institute a close 



in season for some of the big game in Africa, 



Africa. and forbid in certain districts the shooting 



of some species which were threatened with 



extinction. This treaty was, however, not ratified by England 



on the ground furnished by Dr. Koch, who held that this big 



game, bear, buffalo and antelope, was the carrier of the dreaded 



Tsetse fly, which occasions the sleeping sickness of the negroes 



and the dying of Zebu cattle. He, therefore, advocated extirpa- 



