"by such activity in road construction that the atate', which 

 - *boars--c- proportion of the oxperiao, paid to the cantons the sum 

 of $45, 34 .00 on their account alone. 



"Spruco is the motif, inrportant tree in the Swiss for- 

 ests, and then in crdor of their importance come the white fir, 

 be^eoix, larch, pine, cypress, and a few other varieties. 



"The principal revenue derived from the Swiss forests 

 is froii the lumber output ? there being no manufactures of reein, 

 turpentine J and similar by-products. To offset the cutting, 

 there wero planted in 1908 23,095,225 trees, cf which 1^,031,520 

 were conifer and 5,064,635 deciduous , and no les r ; th&?i &.DV3n 

 tons of seed wore sown. 



"Statistics of the receipts and expenditures of all 

 forestry work in the country aro not available, but a couple of 

 cases may be citod which show fjr^tifyinr returns. The total re- 

 ceipts from the s*le or wood in 1908 from 2,421 acres of state 

 forests in the canton of St. Gall are given as $24 7 457-.57 and 

 the expenditures as J7|104.8QL, leaving a cloar profit of 

 17,352.56. In the forests of the town of Tinterthur, amount- 

 ing to 2,833 acres, the receipts were $51,174*63 and the ex- 

 penses 4>21,634.50, leaving a net profit of 29,540.13, or an 

 average profit of about $10*42 per acre. 



n lt is not to ba presui^ad that the revenue from the 

 entire Swiss forest area- can be approximated by tc.kin< as ^ br.^i: 



