PROFITABLE CO-OPERATIVE TIMBER-GROWING. 297 
The Douglas fir plantation at Taymount, belonging to the 
Earl of Mansfield, might be quoted as a successful example of 
forestry, and if the value of that plantation would appear to be 
exceptional, it at any rate shows what is possible in favourable 
circumstances. From reports which have recently been pub- 
lished, it is said that during the fifteen years from 1888 to 1893, 
there has been an increment on this plantation amounting to 
495 standard cubic feet per acre per annum, which is equivalent 
to about 370 feet by quarter-girth measurement, and which, at 
gd. per cubic foot, represents a rental of £14 per acre per annum 
during these fifteen years. 
REVENUE FROM FOREIGN FORESTS. 
While returns from foreign forests cannot be accepted as con- 
clusive evidence that similar returns might be expected in this 
country, seeing the conditions as to labour, etc., are different, 
still the figures which are available are interesting. Dr Schlich 
says, with regard to Saxony, where complete records of past 
management are available, that while the growing stock on 
the ground and the annual output have both been increased, the 
net return, after deducting every item of possible expenditure, 
has increased gradually and steadily from 4s. for the period from 
1817 to 1826, until, in the year 1900, the average return was 
22s. 6d., which represents an increase of 463 per cent., one 
quarter of which only was accounted for by increase in the price 
of timber, and the remainder by improvement in management. 
The figures refer to Saxon forests as a whole. According to 
Dr Nisbet, the revenue from the French State Forests in 1904, 
as stated in his “ Notes on Continental Forestry,” was 5s. rogd. 
per acre, but the charges debited against the maintenance of the 
State Forests included large sums expended in the purchase and 
replantation of waste lands, in the upkeep of certain forest 
schools, in improvements to water-courses, and in the mainten- 
ance and improvement of inland fisheries, so that the actual 
revenue was considerably larger. He gives the net revenue of 
the State Forests of Prussia in 1905 as over 7S. per acre, but 
adds that as many of the expenses are not strictly for mainten- 
ance and upkeep, etc., the actual amount which might be 
considered the net return is in reality considerably above this 
sum. Sir Dietrich Brandis says that ten ranges in Saxony yield 
over 40s, an acre, and that nine ranges in Baden yield 53s. per 
