NOTES ON CONTINENTAL FORESTRY. l6l 



XIII. Notes on Continental Forestry, 1904. By the Hon. Editor. 



As many Scottish foresters will no doubt be interested in 

 knowing how both scientific and practical matters connected 

 with forestry are progressing on the Continent, it is intended to 

 give here a very brief summary for the year 1904, so far as may 

 be ascertained from three of the chief periodicals, the Revue des 

 Eaux et Forets, the Zeitschrift filr Forst- imd Jagdwesen, and the 

 Allgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitiing. The French periodical 

 appears every fortnight, but the two German ones are monthlies, 

 and are considerably larger in size. A special feature of the last- 

 named of the above is the issue of a Supplement of about 100 

 quarto-size pages, in which specialists in each of the four main 

 branches of forestry and in the three chief cognate sciences (forest 

 botany, zoology, and soil-science) give a sort of skeletonised 

 •epitome of all the books, essays, etc., published during the 

 previous year, which must often be found very useful by those 

 wishing to hunt up references. In these summaries, references 

 are made to no less than 100 periodicals printed in German, of 

 which 25 deal principally with German, Austrian, and Swiss 

 forestry, while 7 are in French, and 2 in English (the Indian 

 Forester and the Gardeners^ Chronicle). 



I. France. 



The French Revue, a semi-official periodical, opens appropriately 

 with interesting extracts concerning the forest budget for 1904. 

 During the last ten years for which actuals are obtainable (1893- 

 1902), the income from the State forests has been growing slightly 

 but steadily, although it is somewhat less than what it was fifty 

 years ago. On consulting the Annuaire des Eaux et Forets for 

 1904, issued as a Supplement to the Revue, I find that, of the 

 present wooded area in France, amounting to about 23^7 million 

 acres, the State forests in 1902 extended to 2,874,017 acres, and 

 produced a gross income of ^1,406,320, or just under los. per 

 acre, as compared with 2,698,857 acres, which produced a gross 

 income of ^1,464,568, or just over los. per acre, in 1855 (and 

 as compared with a total area of 11,621,144 acres in 1 791, at 

 the time of the Revolution). As the total expenditure sanctioned 

 under the budget for 1904 was ;^562,924 — which is almost exactly 

 two-fifths, or 40 per cent., of the gross income — this leaves (on 

 the basis of the receipts for 1902) a net surplus or clear annual 



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