Periodical Literature. 549 



shows a decline of wood prices for workwood of 4.5% over the 

 previous year. 



A remarkable change has taken place in the relation in which 

 thinnings stand to final harvest budgets. While in 1880 thinnings 

 represented about one-third (32%) of the total cut, in 1910 the 

 relation had almost been precisely reversed, the thinnings repre- 

 senting nearly two-thirds (64%) of the total cut, a steady rise 

 in this relation being exhibited in the curve. In some districts 

 this proportion rises to over 80 and 90 per cent. 



Cultures average 50 cents per acre over all, a very high cost. 



The total forest area of the dukedom, 31.7% of the whole 

 country, comprises 602,528 acres, slightly less than half an acre 

 per capita. Of this 30.8% is crownlands, 38% communal for- 

 est. Of the remaining 31.2% of private forest 21.8% are I class, 

 i. e. managed by technically educated men, hence hardly 10% 

 of the forest area is without technical administration. Govern- 

 ment foresters almost invariably look after communal woods or 

 private forests besides their own revirs, not quite 5,000 acres com- 

 ing in the average under the Oberforster's care, permitting very 

 intensive management. 



The 218,256 acres of communal forest compares well with the 

 crown forests ; the average cut was 83.6 cubic feet ; the gross in- 

 come per acre was $5.54 as against $5.77 in the crown forests, and 

 the average price per cubic foot was a little higher, namely 6.9 

 cents as against 6.y cents in the crown forests. 



Mitteilungen aus der Forst-und Kameralverwaltung des Grossherzog- 

 tums Hesse. 1912. 43 pp. 



The latest statistics of Russian forests are 



Russian published in the Yearbook of the Forest 



Statistics. department at St. Petersburg for 1909, and 



are reproduced by Guse. They are in two 



volumes, the second in tabular form, giving by districts and 



governments (counties?) total areas, total forest areas, forest per 



cent., population and the per capita relations. The six districts 



are European Russia proper ; Poland ; Finland ; Caucasia ; Siberia ; 



Central Asia. The totals, translated into English measure, are : 



