NOTES ON CONTINENTAL FORESTRY IN 1905. 161 
XX. LVotes on Continental Forestry in 1905. 
By the Hon. Epiror. 
FRANCE. 
In France the budget allotments for forests and inland 
waters during 1905 provided, as is now usual, a large 
sum for the improvement and conservation of waste lands in 
mountain tracts. Of total receipts amounting to £1,184,204 
from the State Forests, £554,280, or close on one-half, are 
allotted to their maintenance, improvement, and extension, and 
of this outlay no less than £131,000, or nearly one-quarter, are 
for the above specific purpose. The payment of officials of 
gazetted rank requires £100,200, while £112,800 go to the 
subordinates, for the pension-fund in favour of whom there is 
also a special contribution of £8000, beside £29,360 paid as 
indemnities and extra pay. For technical instruction in forestry 
the allotment is 4 38,000, of which £29,000 is for professorships, 
etc., and £9000 for other expenditure. Besides the £131,000 
specially allotted to waste lands in mountainous tracts, £50,800 
were to be devoted to the improvement and maintenance of the 
forests and of dunes and inland water-courses, £16,800 to 
working-plans and utilisation of forest produce, £84,000 to 
upkeep of roads, £10,240 to sundries, such as office expenses, 
first uniform for subordinates (£1128), and acquisition of rights 
of pasturage, etc., £2000 for maintenance of sport, and £1040 
as “awards for the destruction of wolves, wild boars, and crows,” 
—from which it would seem apparent that the wild rabbit is not 
so destructive a pest as with us, or as it is also now becoming 
in some parts of Germany. 
Among the French colonies, in Algiers the State Forests do not 
yet yield any surplus, but, as the income is £117,145 and the 
expenditure £121,567, the deficit is only £4422. The establish- 
ment employed accounts for £76,659, general work in the forests 
for £23,820, harvesting the cork-oak bark £16,800, sundries for 
42828, and planting of waste lands for £1200. In Tunis, too, the 
budget for 1905 also shows the very slight deficit of £4200, the re- 
ceipts being 424,424 and the outlay £24,625. But the allotment 
of £1440 to the fixation of dunes makes all the difference between 
a surplus and a deficit, the other expenditure being £5764 on 
establishment, £3724 on material, 49240 on demarcation and 
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