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offices 195 higher grade, 580 lower grade foresters and 501 guards 

 are employed. 



The funds forests and domains of about 327,000 acres (18% 

 unproductive) belonging to church and school institutions are 

 administered under the Ministry of Culture and Education, with 

 27 higher grade and 183 lower grade officials. They leave a net 

 result of around $200,000 or 75 cents per acre productive area. 



Centralblatt fiir das gesammte Forstwesen, July, 1912. Pp. 342-346. 



The State forests of Saxony are, next to 

 Forestry those of Wiirttemberg, the most profitable 



in in the German Empire, and consequently in 



Saxony. the world. 



The following table gives an analysis of 

 the returns, first the totals, and then the figures for the forests 

 showing respectively the largest and smallest net returns per unit 

 of area : 



Total. 



Area under forest, acres, 426,286 



Wood cut total, cubic feet, 30,546,000 



Timber wood : 



Cubic feet, 25,680,000 



Per cent, of t otal, 84 



Receipts : 



Wood, $3,744,775-17 



Secondary products, 28,105.49 



Total, 3,772,880.66 



Expenses : 



Wages of woodcutters, 552,581.77 

 Forest improvements, 109,101.91 

 Management and protec- 

 tion, 608,382.71 

 General working, 299,139.89 

 Total, 1,564,349.36 



Net returns : 



Total, 2,208,531.29 



Per acre, 5.17 



Per 100 cub. ft. of wood, 7.22 



Forest capital : 



Capital, 101,007,034.00 



Rate of interest, 2.19% 



Single Forest. 

 Largest. 

 46,994 

 3,690,600 



$25,288.42 



105.61 



18,094.27 



2,908.56 

 2,949-43 



4,96546 

 1,051.20 



11,878.32 



6,218.63 

 2.13 

 4.12 



655,905.00 

 0.95% 



The figures for the forest giving the smallest returns per unit 

 of area are from the reserve annexed to the Forestry College of 

 Tharandt, while those for the largest are from the forest district 

 of Schwarzenberg, which has a wooded area slightly above the 

 average. 



3,298,800 

 89 



$531,184.74 



550.91 



531,735-65 



75,254.00 

 33,618.69 



60,620.80 



6,926.73 



143,087.23 



355.315-09 

 7-56 

 7.19 



13,130,358.67 

 2.71% 



Smallest. 



2,915 

 150,400 



132,600 

 82 



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