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Here ,the Austrian government has in the short time 

 of 25 years succeeded in bringing orderly conditions 

 into the forest management. Until 1878, these coun- 

 tries were provinces of Turkey and were placed under 

 Austrian suzerainty as a result of the Russo-Turkish 

 War. The Turks had already attempted a manage- 

 ment of the forest lands, which were in their entirety 

 claimed by the Sultan. Property conditions being 

 entirely unclear when the Austrians assumed the 

 administration, these questions had first to be settled 

 by a survey. This survey resulted in showing a forest 

 area of 6.3 million acres, 51% of the land area, of 

 which probably all but about 1.5 million acres is 

 private or communal property; half of the state 

 property is fully stocked and it is estimated that 

 about 100 million cubic feet is the annual increment. 



4. State Forest Administration. 



The State domain in the first half of the 19th cen- 

 tury had been reduced by sales from nearly 10 million 

 acres to 4.5 million acres, and to a little over 3 million 

 acres in 1855. In that year, about one-half of this 

 property was handed over to the National Bank to 

 secure the State's indebtedness of $30,000,000, and 

 between 1860 and 1870 further sales reduced the 

 domain to about its present size of 1.8 million acres 

 productive forest. In 1872, however, a new policy, 

 and the present organization were instituted. 



Before 1849, the forest properties which the Crown 

 or State owned in the various territories were not 

 managed as a unit or in any uniform manner, but a 

 number of separate provincial or territorial forest 



