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STATISTICS AND HISTORY. 



The official statistics of the forest adminis- 



Baden tration of Baden for 1909 have appeared 



Statistics. and show an advance in all directions over 



those reported for 1904 (see F. Q. vol. VI, 



p. 199). 



The total forest area of the State has increased to 1,445,600 

 acres, of which 248,000 are State property, but nearly 600,000 

 acres more of municipal and corporation forests are under direct 

 State control, leaving only 674,000 acres, or 40%, in private hands. 



The cut in the State forests has increased to 108.7 cubic feet 

 per acre, with a work wood per cent, of 40.7%. The net money 

 return for wood alone has increased per acre to $7.40 from $3 in 

 1881, although prices have in the last two years gone back. The 

 best cuts of spruce and fir during the last 10 years averaged 17.5 

 cents per cubic foot, for pine, larch and beech 24 cents, for oak 

 over 50 cents, the smallest logs selling at 5.6, 10.5, and for oak 

 even 47 cents respectively less. 



While in 1878 the forest capital figured at 2.5% was $21 million, 

 in 1909 it was nearly $50 million, an increase in 32 years of 135 

 per cent. 



Statistishe Nachzveisungen aus der Forstvenvaltung des Grossherzog- 

 tums Baden fiir 1909. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir Forstwesen. March, 

 1912. Pp. 99-101. 



At an exposition by the mine districts at 



Stvedish Orebro, Sweden, statistical tables of interest 



Statistics. were exhibited, from which the following 



data are reproduced. Of the 101.5 milHon 



acres of total land area about 12 million is in farms, and nearly 



16 million mountain waste, leaving 72.8 million acres in forest. 



Of this 78.2% is private, 21.8% State forest (in 1905). A table 



comparing forest areas of the European countries makes out 



Sweden, with 47.6% of land area and 9.76 acres per capita, by far 



the best wooded. The mine forests with around 7.2 million acres 



are, to the extent of 93.8%, privately owned, 570,000 acres of 



which only are under State supervision. 



The increase in State forest area by purchase during the last 

 40 years is striking, the growth from quinquennium to quinquen- 



