TRANSACTIONS 



EOYAL SCOTTISH AEBOEICULTURAL SOCIETY 



FORESTRY IN HUNGARY. 



(TFith Ma.}}.) 

 By Colonel F. Bailey, KE. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE HUNGARIAN FORESTS. 

 Area, Elevation, Climate, Species, and Distribution of Trees. 

 The total area of the kingdom of Hungary, including Croatia and 

 Slavonia, is 125,370 square miles, of which 35,459 square miles, 

 or over 28 per cent., are forests, owned by the following proprietors : 



Vor 16 per cent. 



Square Miles. 

 The State, ..... .^oSS 



Do., studs, railways, War Department, 

 Departments and Communes, . . 8,200 or 23 



Corporations and Ecclesiastical endowments, 2,071 or 6 

 Public foundations, 

 Private do.. 



Trustees, 



Joint proprietors, 



Joint Stock Companies, 



319 



1,999 or 6 



5,101 or 14 



654 or 2 



(A.) 24,075 or 68 

 Private persons (B. ) 11,384 or 32 



Total, . . 35,459 or 100 



This gives nearly li acres of forest per head of the population. 



Forests in Class (A.) must, under section 17 of the Forest Law, 

 be managed in accordance with the provisions of a working plan, 



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