THE FOKEST RESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 



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communes and corporations, 1,431,280 acres, or 66.9 per cent; and pri- 

 vate individuals, 611,102 acres, or 28.5 per cent. The most heavily 

 wooded Cantons are Schaffhausen, Solothurn, Basel-Land, and 

 Aargau ; the least thickly wooded are Geneve and tlri. The distribu- 

 tion of forests according to ownership in the different Cantons is 

 given in Table 21. 



TABLE 21. Distribution of forest in different cantons of Switzerland. 



ANNUAL CUT. 



Unfortunately, the latest statistics do not contain any figures for 

 the forest cut, but the earlier statistics do contain such, and since 

 there could not be any great change in the amount of cutting, these 

 figures may serve our purpose. 



In the early eighties the cutting in state forests, according to Pro- 

 fessor Landolt, a Conservator of Forests, Zurich, amounted to 5,509,400 

 cubic feet, or 68 cubic feet per acre; in communal and corporation 

 forests, 65,653,560 cubic feet, or 51 cubic feet per acre; and in private 

 forests, 27,335,400 cubic feet, or 48 cubic feet per acre, making a total 

 of 98,498,000 cubic feet, or an average of 51 cubic feet per acre. 



Of the total cut, 40 per cent formed saw-log timber for building 

 purposes. 



ANNUAL GROWTH. 



The cut of 51 cubic feet per acre, or a total of 98,498,000 cubic feet, 

 may be taken as representing the annual growth of all the Swiss 

 forests, since Switzerland has for a long time been practicing forestry, 

 and became converted to the principle of cutting only the annual 

 increment, leaving the forest capital which produces that increment. 



Furrer. Volkswirtschafts Lexikon der Schweiz. 



