THE PRESENT CONDITION OF FORESTRY IN ITALY. 



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the forests subject to forest servitude. The figures are reported 

 in the agricultural land book (catasto) of 1910, together with the 

 area of woods not subject to forest servitude ; these (including 

 chestnut woods) are given in the following table : — 



The total wooded area from 1870 to 19 10 was as follows 



The above figure for 19 10 is 17*03 per cent, of the area of the 

 country. 



The values of the imports and exports of forest produce and 

 of forest industry during the last eleven years have been as 

 follows : — 



There are no precise data as to the yearly production of 

 timber, but an approximation is given by the following table 

 based on the calculation that an area of high-forest yields 

 36 cubic feet of wood, an acre of coppice 43 cubic feet, and the 

 29 million acres of fields, wooded pastures, brushwood and 

 hedges yield 7 cubic feet per acre. 



