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As is well known the Saxon forest management is based on a 

 strict financial rotation figured on the soil rent principles. This 

 exhibit makes it doubtful whether the financial results are not 

 secured from the savings of former generations. At any rate, 

 even so, Saxony in financial results is declining, if rising wood 

 prices are taken into consideration, and is now left behind by 

 Wurtemberg, and pressed closely by Baden, two States which 

 have not yielded to the persuasions of the soil rent theory. For 

 Saxony netted in 1900, $5.25 ; in 1902, $4.37, and in 1907, $6.02 

 per acre, while Wurtemberg stood in 1903 with $5.00 and in 1907 

 with $7.66 in front of all the State forest administrations, while 

 Baden in 1906 boasted $6.07, in 1907, $5.53 per acre. And these 

 results are secured in spite of the fact that in industrial Saxony 

 the spruce is the prevailing timber and smaller sizes can evi- 

 dently be turned into workwood, the workwood per cent, here 

 being now 83, in Wurtemburg 63, in Baden only 48; but the 

 total cut per acre was in 1907, 90 cubic feet in Wurtemberg as 

 against 78 in Saxony. 



As to ownership, State and private forests appear in almost 

 equal proportion, namely 45.2 and 46 per cent., the rest being com- 

 mercial or institute forest. Timber forest occupies 99 per cent, 

 of the total area (selection forest .4). Conifers, 58 per cent, 

 spruce, 30 per cent, pine, is prevalent. 



The data for this volume are secured under cooperation of fed- 

 eral and State authority, gathered by 186 men, of whom 108 were 

 foresters, and furnish as complete a statement as could well be 

 brought together. B. E. F. 



Forest Fires in Canada during 1908. By H. R. MacMillan. 

 Forestry Branch, Bulletin No. 7, Ottawa, 1909. 



This is an attempt to get some idea of the extent of damage 

 which Canada suffers through forest fires. Admittedly the at- 

 tempt is a failure, if anything like the area actually burned over 

 and the damage to young growth and soil is desired to be known. 

 The vast country, especially of the Northland, sparsely settled, 

 experiences extensive fires annually without being noticed, and, 

 even in the more settled and organized communities, only exten- 

 sive fires destroying merchantable timber are taken note of. 

 Even in the Province of Ontario, which spent over $200,000 on 



