548 Forestry Quarterly. 



Current expenses: $108,845 (^Si cents per acre). 



Administration: $606,960 ($1.38 per acre). 



Total Expense: $1,560,665 ($3.60 per acre). 



Total net yield: $2,203,327 ($5.17 per acre; 7.21 cents per cubic 

 foot). 



Forest Capital : $100,780,000 ($237 per acre). 



Interest paid: 2.19%. 



There were planted and sowed during the year 6,669 acres (only 

 286 sowed) at an average cost of $14.50, including all incidental 

 expenses, cost of plant material, etc., the planting itself costing 

 on the average $10.25, t»ut varying for different districts between 

 $8.12 and $12.44. 



Tharandter Forstliches Jahrhuch. igi2. Pp. 144.-157. 



A more complete, official report of the re- 

 Hesse suits of a small forest administration, that 



Statistics. of Hesse, for the year 1910 develops the fol- 



lowing data. 

 Some tabulations give insight into general conditions ; another 

 series exhibits details of the domain administration ; another, de- 

 tails of the communal forest administration. A number of dia- 

 grams give the progress made in certain directions for a series 

 of years. In these latter we note the following interesting facts : 

 forest misdemeanors and torts in the whole dukedom have fallen 

 off during the last 30 years from year to year in regular progres- 

 sion from over 50,000 cases to less than 7,500 cases ; the cut in the 

 domanial forests has increased in quite even progress, with one 

 extraordinary rise in 1901, from 72.6 cubic feet in 1895 to 89.6 

 cubic feet per acre, while the workwood per cent, rose from 21 

 to 31 per cent., largely due to railroad tie and mine timber pro- 

 duction ; in some districts this per cent, is over 50. Stumpage 

 net results rose from $3.26 per acre to $4.43 with several years 

 in excess of this figure up to $4.50 in 1908, due to wood prices. 

 Prices during these 15 years have not changed much; indeed 

 workwood in 1910, with 9.5 cents per cubic foot net stumpage, 

 was lower than in any preceding year, the price in the years 1899 

 to 1901 having been 11.5 cents. Fuel-wood shows less variation 

 and at the end of the period, with 3.5 cents per cubic foot is 

 about the same as at the beginning. The last year of the record 



