THE STATE FORESTS OF SAXONY. 3 1 



risk of making the mean quality too high or too low, a great 

 deal of the land is put into II. and III. which should be in 

 I., IV. and V. 



Of the maps used in connection with the working-plans the 

 sub-compartment map {Bestandeskarte) is the most important. 

 Its scale is i : 20,000, and each species occurring pure is repre- 

 sented by a different colour. Age-classes are shown by different 

 shades of the same colour, the lightest being the youngest 

 woods. Spruce is coloured black, and most of the Saxon maps 

 appear chiefly composed of black in different degrees of density. 

 The quality of the soil is indicated by a small number placed 

 to the right of the sub-compartment letter ; if lower than this it 

 indicates that the age of the wood is in the first half of the 

 age-class to which it belongs, and if higher that the wood in 

 question belongs to the latter half of the age-class. Thus the 

 age of any sub-compartment may be ascertained from the map 

 to within ten years. This map is renewed for each revision of 

 the working-plan, that is every ten years. 



Finance, Accounts, etc. — A perusal of the summary of the 

 annual accounts which appear in two parts ^ every year in the 

 Tharandter Forstliches Jahrbuch gives a good idea of the 

 thorough manner with which these are kept. Although to 

 reproduce these here in full would serve no purpose, a few 

 extracts may be of interest. 



The exact area of the State forests for the end of the 

 silvicultural year 1910-1911 was 445,380 acres, of which 

 426,722 acres were productive (actually producing timber — 

 IIolzboden)ax\6. 18,658 acres were non-productive {Nichtholzboden). 

 There was during the year 29,559,000 cubic feet of wood over 

 7 cm. (27 ins.) at the smaller end i^Dcrbholz) cut, being 

 68 cubic feet per productive acre, 85 per cent, of which was 

 timber {Nutzholz) and the remainder firewood. 



In addition 4,728,000 cubic feet of wood under 7 cm. at 

 larger end {Reissig) was sold, of which 4,297,000 was fire- 

 wood {Brenfireissig) and the rest used for other purposes 

 {Nutzreissig). Also 6,048^000 stacked cubic feet of root wood 

 was sold. 



The following mean prices of wood over 7 cm. at smaller 



' ''^AlitteilttngenuberdieErgebnissederA'gl. Sacks. Staatsforstvo-waltuitg'''' 

 and " Z)j£ Reinertragsiibersichten der Kgl. Sachs. Staatsforsten." 



