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MANUFACTUKES OF RUSSIA. 



The data referring- to the amount of suitable soil for forests are only given 

 for those woods under Government administration, where the extent of favourable 

 soil amounts to 79 per cent of the total area of Crown forests. If this percentage 

 be extended to all forests, then the whole amount of suitable forest soil in Russia 

 in Europe, without counting the governments on the Vistula and the Caucasus, 

 amounts to 136 million dissiatines. 



According to this table the forests lands ir. Russia amount to 41 per cent and 

 the suitable forest soil is expressed by 41 X ' 78 = 32.4 per cent. This last figure 

 conveys the idea that Russia is a more richly wooded region than western Europe, 

 which contains 28 per cent of woodland, Austria having 29, Germany 26 and France 

 16 per cent. Russia is however far too extensive to be regarded as a single element, 

 and by dividing it into several separate regions and assigning the same proportion 

 between favourable forest soil and total extent of forests as that given for the Crown 

 forests, the following relations are arrived at. The northern region is found to be 

 the most richly wooded, the forest land amounting to 71 X ' 8 = 57 per cent of the 

 total area ; the eastern region with a woodland area of 45 X ' 79 — 36 per cent, 

 and the Moscow region, with 38 X ' 82 = 31 per cent, follow next. The remaining- 

 regions are poorer in forests than Germany ; the north-western region contains 

 31 X • 77 = 24 per cent, the Baltic-St.-Petersburg 35 X • 60 = 21 per cent, the 

 Vistula region 22 X • 96 = 21 per cent, the south-western 22 X • 84 = 18 per cent, 

 the Central Chernoziom 17 X * 84 = 14 per cent, the Little-Russian 11 X • 71 = 8 

 per cent, and the southern region about 1 per cent. If therefore the northern and 

 eastern governments be omitted, as they supply but little tuuber to the other parts- 



