762 Forestry Quarterly. 



The Austrian budget for 1912, as usual 



Austrian comprises statements of a somewhat mixed 



Budget. character, the State domain being in part 



agricuhural, in part forest, and the "funds 



forests and domains" being treated as a special property. 



For the personell of the general central administration of the 

 Department of Agriculture $393,000 are set out, from which the 

 12 officials, having the central technical direction of the forests in 

 charge are paid (detail salaries not stated). The forest experi- 

 ment station has an allowance of $15,000; for educational pur- 

 poses in agriculture and forestry, $336,000 are allowed ; for the 

 furtherance of agriculture and forestry, $1,230,000, of which 

 $220,000 for association work ( !), $160,000 for reforestation and 

 cultural measures, $80,000 to assist alps management, and $40,000 

 to combat the increase in cost of living. Statistics and other 

 information have $375,000; hydrographic work including fixation 

 of torrents secures $243,000, including the salaries of 124 officials 

 specially detailed to this work. 



Under the title "Surveillance over land culture," provision is 

 made for that peculiarly Austrian institution of technical forest 

 police attached to the political administrations, an organization 

 which is made up of altogether 186 higher grade and 204 lower 

 grade foresters, for which $280,000 are provided. These items 

 total for the directive department $2,870,000. 



The State property in forests and domains consists of 1,767,700 

 acres forest and 160,000 acres agricultural lands and pasture 

 besides 840,000 unproductive ground. The cut represents a little 

 over 80 million cubic feet, of which 52.5% workwood and 47.5% 

 fuelwood. The cut per acre of forest area then is 45.6 cubic feet. 

 There are still rights of user for wood and pasture estimated at 

 $354,000 in value. Total receipts are placed at a little under five 

 million dollars, the expenditures a little under three million, the 

 balance at $944,000 or only 47 cents per acre. If, however, the 

 expense for the directive office, which has many outside functions, 

 is left out of the calculation and the value of the rights of user is 

 added to the income the per acre revenue rises to 80 cents. 



The personnel of the directive offices consists of 106 foresters 

 of various rank and 143 other functionaries; in the executive 



