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THE FOREST RESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 



The following areas are managed in the Kingdom as high forest: 

 3,510,000 acres of oak, 8,367,000 acres of other hard woods, 4,649,400 

 acres of spruce and pine; the rest, 5,934,600 acres, is in composite 

 and coppice forest, or which 25 per cent is simple coppice. 



The forests are distributed according to ownership as follows: 



Distribution of ownership by States and for Kingdom. 



ANNUAL GROWTH AND PRESENT STAND. 



Approximate estimates of the annual growth were made in 1882 

 and 1894; they do not differ essentially. On an average, 1 acre of 

 forest in Hungary yielded 44.4 cubic feet, and in Croatia and Slavonia 

 43.4 cubic feet. The annual yield per acre in coniferous forest was 

 estimated at 58.5 cubic feet, that of oak forest 41.5 cubic feet, and 

 all other forest 40 cubic feet. In the state forests the different 

 species were found to yield the following grades of wood : 



These figures show that conifers yield the largest percentage of saw 

 timber, and for this reason Hungary with its hard-wood forests can 

 not export large quantities of structural timber, which must be 

 secured chiefly from Austria. The total annual growth is given as 

 1,000,000,000 cubic feet. 



ANNUAL CUT. 



There are no figures available for the total cut in all the forests of 

 Hungary proper. In the state forests the annual cut per acre is 30 

 to 33 cubic feet per acre, which is less than the annual growth. 



ANNUAL CONSUMPTION. 



There are no figures for the annual consumption in Hungary alone, 

 so it will be considered together with Austria for the entire Empire. 



WOOD PRICES. 



Timber brings fairly good prices. Thus oak, the most valuable of 

 all timber trees, is sold in southern Hungary on the stump at 6J to 



