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getting earlier returns, and, on the whole, a larger percentage 
from the total capital invested in land and timber-crops. 
The 7,000,000 acres (in round numbers) of Prussian State 
forests yielded in 1904 over 412,000,000 cubic feet of wood, 
or about 65 cubic feet per acre actually stocked, and of this 
total rather more than the half was used for timber, while rather 
under one-half had to be disposed of as fuel. The total income 
realised was over £5,854,400, and the expenditure incurred 
amounted to £2,755,230, leaving a net surplus of £ 3,099,107, 
which shows a clear income of gs. 7d. per acre actually cultur- 
able. Cultural operations extended to nearly 32,000 acres, and 
cost £43,500. Employment was given to 156,772 hands for 
a total of 10,479,589 days. 
But in some respects the details regarding sport within these 
Prussian State forests are for us perhaps the most interesting 
of all. I have often pointed out that forestry and sport are not 
inimical—bar rabbits, which are really only glorified vermin, 
destructive to both field and woodland crops—and the official 
statistics throw an instructive light on this. Shooting brought 
in an income of £23,550, of which £7400 were for shootings 
let outright, and £16,150 for those ‘“‘ administered” by the State 
—that is to say, an estimate is made of the existing head of 
game, and of the number of each kind that shall be shot during 
the year, and the right of shooting to that extent is let generally 
to the head forester in charge of the forests at a very moderate 
amount, perhaps less than the food-value of the game. The 
total bag for these “administered” shootings alone was in 1904 :— 
4elks, 2176 stags, 3276 hinds, 1726 calves; 1673 fallow-deer and 
1128 calves; 9969 roebucks, 5264 does, 4oo calves; 2246 wild 
boar, 107 capercailzie, 162 black grouse, 405 pheasants, 7 wild 
swans, 2865 hares, gto partridges, and 69 moorfowl. JVot a 
rabbit! but there they are treated as vermin. These returns 
of feathered and ground game seem poor; but such “lower 
hunting” is generally let outright to the forest officials, and no 
returns are in that case called for. It is unnecessary to ex- 
patiate on the quality of sport which is represented by 2176 
stags and 2246 wild boar, and especially the latter, because a 
wounded boar is a nasty customer to contend with, a regular 
“thrawn deevil.” 
Throughout all these 7,000,000 acres of woods, many of them 
highly inflammable pine-tracts, only fifteen fires occurred in 
