9© transactions of royal scottish areoricultural society. 



Yield and Revenue. 

 The yield of the State forest has been as follows : — 



The annual production during these periods was 55, 66, and 

 72 cubic feet per acre annually, the price varying from i|d. in 

 1870 to 4hd. in 1882. Thus the gross income in 1890-99 was 

 about p^i, 6s. per acre annually. 



Section VIII. 1 of this forest contains 19 10 acres. This section 

 produced annually 76*6 cubic feet per acre from 1881 to 1892, 

 as compared with 61 -6 cubic feet per acre for the whole forest, 

 the average price of the timber being 3d. per cubic foot, and the 

 gross income being 19s. 2 id. per acre. 



PART II. 



Management and general Character of Beech and 

 Oak High Forest in France. 



By Professor Fisher, Royal Indian Engineering College, 

 Coopers Hill. 



(From Notes by M. Cottignies, Inspecteur des Eaux et Forets.) 



Foref de Retz {Jll/ers Cot fe rets). 



Situation. 



The Foret de Retz is situated in the \.E. of France, on three 

 sides of the town of Villers Cotterets, between the river Aisne, a 

 tributary of the Oise, and the Oureq, both being tributaries of 

 the Seine. 



The height above sea-level varies from 200 to 800 feet. 



' This was the onlv section of the State forest visited by the Society. 



