NOTES ON CONTINENTAL FORESTRY IN 1905, I7I 
The effect on the money-value of the growing stock was at the 
same time equally marked, being estimated at 33 per cent. on 
the capital value of the growing-stock in the thinned part, as 
compared with 2? per cent. on that in the unthinned. This is 
just one of the useful kinds of experiment which it seems 
desirable to carry out at many centres throughout the United 
Kingdom, in order to provide object-lessons for those desirous of 
studying such questions. 
GERMANY. 
As usual, both the Ad/gemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung and the 
Lettschrift fiir Forst- und Jagdwesen contain a vast amount of 
interesting information concerning scientific, technical, statistical, 
and other matters connected with the working and management 
of the German forests, with, of course, the never-failing dash of 
strong controversial feeling manifesting itself here and there. 
The Forestry Budget of Prussia for 1905-06 is just as interesting 
as that of France, although it also does not enable one to form 
any correct idea of the real extent to which the woodlands 
directly and indirectly contribute to the permanent employment 
of rural labour. The State Forests, now aggregating 7,127,000 
acres, yield a gross income of £ 4,987,550, and, deducting ex- 
penditure amounting to 42,489,205, a net revenue of £ 2,498,345 
(which is £59,205 less than in 1904-5), or over 7S. per acre as 
interest on the capital value of land and timber-crops. But, as 
many of the expenses are not strictly for maintenance and 
upkeep, etc., the actual amount which might be considered the 
net return is in reality considerably above this. Thus, for forest 
schools and scientific investigations £23,320 are provided, and 
£200,000 as an extraordinary contribution for the acquisition and 
planting of waste lands, in addition to the ordinary annual allow- 
ance of £52,500 for waste-land improvement. (During 1904, 9750 
acres of waste land were planted by the State, and g1oo acres were 
acquired for planting, and there were still 68,780 acres of State- 
owned waste land in hand for this special purpose.) In fact, the 
total for extraordinary expenditure amounts to £ 294,350, and in- 
cludes £32,500 for building houses for foresters not yet thus pro- 
vided for, £10,000 for redeeming servitudes, £7500 for fitting up 
telephones in the forests, and £9350 for three new schools for 
forest apprentices (see also below). The forest service, or gazetted 
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