THE REALISABLE RESOURCES OF THE GERMAN FORESTS. 103 



Surface occupied, in thousands of hectares, by the forests of 

 the German States (omitting Alsace-Lorraine) : — 



I will note further that there are in Baden and Wurtemberg 

 communal forests containing : — 



10,000 hectares of silver fir, aged from 61 to 80 years, 

 8,000 ,, ,, ,, 81 to 100 years, and 



11,000 ,, ,, ,, 101 years and over. 



It is somewhat difficult to indicate the volume of available 

 wood occupying the above areas. The statistics give us no 

 information on the point. Confining myself to considering the 

 part of the material utilisable as timber I think I can take the 

 averages given below, which are certainly very moderate : — 



Volume per hectare of timber. 



Note. — 1 cub. metre equals 35*32 cub. feet. 



Applying these figures to those of the area statement we find 

 the following volume of wood available : — 



Volume, in thousands of cubic metres, of timber realisable in 

 the whole of the forests of the German Empire — 



Or, in round numbers, a total of 652 million cub. metres 

 (23,028,640,000 cub. feet) of timber immediately available, of 

 which a little more than one-third is Scots pine, a little less than 



