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The State cuts about 22,000 acres annually, yielding 

 about $1,000,000, the administration costing (in 1903) 

 $240,000, leaving a net yield of 30 cents per acre. In 

 1898, the Forest Department, in the Direction of 

 Domains under the Ministry of Agriculture consisted 

 of a Forest Director with 156 foresters academically 

 educated (mostly in France, and since 1892 in the 

 Agricultural Institute at Bucharest), and over 2,500 

 underforesters and guards. Of some 30,000 acres of 

 sand dunes, one-half belonging to the State, about 

 18,000 acres have been recovered by planting Black 

 Locust, and some 9,000 acres of plains country have 

 been reforested, for which 330 acres of nurseries 

 furnish the material. In spite of all these efforts, ex- 

 cessive- pasturing, although forbidden in the State 

 forest, and fires continue to devastate the property. 



Private forestry is, of course, much less developed ; 

 yet some large properties (Princess Schoenburg, with 

 20,000 acres) are under efficient German forest man- 

 agement. Here, money is spent on developing means 

 of transportation, and a better revenue is secured 

 than in State forests. 



GREECE. 



The history of the country has been so unfortunate, 

 and political conditions so unsettled that only lately 

 efforts at improvement in economic conditions could 

 hope to receive attention. For centuries after Greece 

 had become a Roman province (146 B.C.), it changed 

 rulers, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians follow- 

 ing each other, until, between 1460 and 1473, it came 



