AREA, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT, &c. 



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In the Polish Journal of Rural Economy and Forest Science, 

 Selskoy Ghosyaistvo u Laesovolstvo, there is given the following 

 information by Mr A. Bitney in regard to the present 

 state of the conservation and exploitation of the Crown 

 forests in Poland : ' The accumulation of a great part of 

 the Crown forests in a few well-known centres leads to 

 the conclusion that they must be very unequally distri- 

 buted, and, in point of fact, we find the distribution in 

 the ten Governments into which the kingdom is divided 

 to be as follows : 



Governments. 



Warsaw, 



Kalish, 



Petrokoff, 



Radom, 



Keletz, 



Lublin, 



Siedtetz, 



Plotsk, 



Lonija, 



Souvalki, 



Forests solely 

 belonging to 

 Government. 



37,491 dec. 



18,870 



80,179 



- 116,738 



80,638 

 31,024 

 24,927 

 30,445 

 97,685 



- 192,041 



Total, 710,038 dec. 



Proportion to Government 



Forests. 



Of Private Of Communal 

 Forests. 



1/36 

 1/54 

 1/14 

 1/10 

 1/11 

 1/50 

 1/52 



Forests. 

 1/6-4 

 1/9-3 

 1/2-4 

 1/2-10 

 1/2-0 

 l/13'O 

 1/11-4 

 1/5-2 

 1/1-5 

 2/1-0 



1/33 

 1/11 



1/5 



' From this it appears that there are five Governments 

 absolutely poor in private forests Kalish, Siedletz, Lublin, 

 Warsaw, and Plotsk, in which the private forests are in 

 proportion to Government forests as one-ninth, and the 

 communal forests as one forty-third ; and there are four 

 Governments Petrokoff, Keletz, Lonija, and Ladom, 

 in which the private forests are in proportion to the Govern- 

 ment forests as one-half, and the communal forests as one- 

 eleventh ; and lastly there is the Government of Souvalki, 

 which presents the extreme case of the private forests 

 being to the Crown forests in the proportion of two to one, 

 and the communal forests as one-fifth. 



' Such an unequal distribution of Crown forests, with the 

 great dispersion and small extent of a great many of 

 them, places the local forest administration under the 



