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year 1886-87, with an area of 6,617,713 acres (of which 673,816 acres are not devoted 

 to wood growth), is given as follows: 



Income according to average of last five years: 



1. For wood $11, 876, 200 



2. For by-products 991, 000 



3. Sundries 477, 320 



Total 13,344,520 



Expenditures : 



1. Administration salaries, &c. (33.8 per cent.) $2,487, 380 



-i. Labor and material (58.7 per cent.) 4,200, 525 



3. Forest scientific purposes (0.6 per cent.) 44, 840 



4. Miscellaneous (8.9 per cent.) 660, 040 



7, 392, 785 



Net income 5, 951, 735 



Of this $367,000 are expended in buying off privileges and $220,000 in buying ad- 

 ditional forest ground. The cut of wood amounts to 272,388,890 cubic feet, or 41 

 cubic feet per acre, of which about 30 per cent, is inferior fire-wood. 



Comparative areas of farm, forest, and other land in the United States and in 



Europe. 



* The most recent returns reduce the percentage of forest in Sweden and Norway to 24 and 25 per 

 cent, respectively. 



The figures here given, so far as they relate to other countries, are taken from 

 European statistical tables, based upon the state of things existing in 1880. No such 

 exact figures can be given for our own country. In the estimates and approxima- 

 tions, given in round numbers, neither Alaska, the Indian Territory, or Indian res- 

 ervations are included, the forest condition of these not having been ascertained. 

 The forest area is taken from an estimate made by the Forestry Division in 1885. 

 For the amount of farm land under cultivation, as weU as for unoccupied and waste 

 land, whether capable of profitable use or otherwise, reliance has been placed upon 

 the census returns. The per capita estimates are made upon the basis of population 

 in 1880, viz, 50,000,000. 



