BRITISH FORESTRY, 



State Forest. 



Prussia, 



Bavaria, 



Wurtemberg, 



Baden, 



Saxony, 



Alsace-Lorraine, 



From this it appears that the average annual profit per acre 

 from German State forests had risen to iis. twelve years ago, 

 thoroughly justifying the policy of the Government in buying 

 up, as it continues to do, all the suitable land that can be had 

 for planting. Between 1867 and 1892 the Prussian Forest 

 Department bought 329,850 acres, at a cost of about _;^i,i25,ooo. 



British Crown lands reckoned as forest are as follows : — New 

 Forest, 64,834 acres; Dean Forest, 18,710 acres; Windsor 

 Forest and Park, 15,175 acres; other woodlands, 16,574 acres; 

 Inverliever (acquired in 1907), 13,000 acres ; total, 128,279 acres. 

 Any comparison between these lands and German State forests 

 is vain, because they have never been submitted to right forest 

 treatment. An attempt was made in 1851 to put the New 

 Forest under systematic management. Parliament passed a 

 Deer Removal Act, and directed that 10,000 acres should be 

 enclosed and planted ; but the cry was raised of " vandalism " ; 

 fussy people agitated against interference with the landscape; 

 so Parliament passed another Act in 1877, putting a stop to 

 planting when only 5000 acres had been enclosed, and decree- 

 ing that only those plantations formed since the year 1700 

 should be treated as under rotation. So now, of this fine tract 

 of 64,834 acres, only 17,670 acres are under growing woods, 

 the remaining 47,164 acres being kept as a combination of 

 common pasture, deer park, and picnicking ground. Meanwhile, 

 the ancient forest must disappear bit by bit ; for even oaks are 

 not immortal, and regeneration by seedlings is impossible on 

 land so closely grazed. 



