FINANCIAL RESULTS OF GERMAN FORESTS. 



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to show how au intensively managed small forest property under favorable- conditions of market 

 compares with the more extensively managed larger forest areas : 



Forestry statistics of certain Oeroum forest administrations, alunring arvrage cost of administration, groan and ml iiu'nmf 



par am, lsO/>. 



The latest figures (1S97) show a considerable increase in all directions, expenditures, gross, 

 and net income, over those prevailing ten years ago, and, as we will see further on in the discussion 

 of the conditions in the single States, these increases have been steady for a long period. 



The following figures represent the income and expense for State forests of the entire Empire 

 and for the principal States as at present : 



Financial results, 1897. 

 [Million dollars.] 



it This item is a trifle below the truth, as the small principalities are here assumed to have no larger income than the average of the 



larger States. 



From this statement it appears that Germany has a yearly gross income of nearly $40,000,000 

 from its State forests, i. e., from one-third of its total forest area alone, while the value of its forest 

 products from the entire forest area (35,000,000 acres) may be estimated to sum up the handsome 

 total of over $107,000,000, or rouud $3 gross income for every acre under forest cover. 



The following table illustrates the results of forest management in the several States. For 

 comparison the figures represent the yearly income and outlay per acre of total forest area, so that 

 for instance the gross income of $3.47 per acre for Germany means that the German State forests 

 yield each year about that sum for every acre of State forest, or $39,300,000 on the whole. 



Yearly income and expenses per acre of forested area. 



oThis figure represents the average for 90 per cent of all State forests, and would be little changed if dat for the other 10 per 

 cent were accessible. 



