164 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



Crown. Private. 



Seosk forest districts 



Dmitrovsk, 770 des. 37,429 des. 



Liven, Liven, 7,645 10,048 



Malo-Archangelsk, 1,945 1,895 



Jeletz, Jeletz, 15,703 34,471 



* Such a preponderance of private forests over crown in 

 the government generally, and in some districts in parti- 

 cular, places rural economy in great dependence on private 

 forests ; and in the meantime the conservation of private 

 forests is the weakest point of forest economy. In the 

 present year, by the direction of the government Land 

 Administration, a pamphlet was printed for the assembly 

 of the Land Administration, in which it is stated that the 

 destruction of forests may lead in one case to the deca- 

 dence of the leather trade in consequence of the want of 

 bark and firewood, and on the other hand to the exhaus- 

 tion of the cultivated lands, in consequence of the con- 

 stantly increasing consumption of dung and straw as 

 fuel. In this pamphlet it is stated that the decadence 

 of the private wood trade proceeds from the general 

 destruction of private forests, and from the sale in the 

 crown estates in small parts of annual clearings, in con- 

 sequence of which the bulk of the purchasers have turned 

 to crown forests. 



' If we take into account the revenue from private forests, 

 and the number of wood dealers preparing in them forest 

 materials, we may suppose that the wood trade, and the 

 income from wood, is falling off; but if of the forest trade 

 and the income from forests we judge from the amount of 

 income from the crown forests then we can maintain that 

 the forest trade is not falling, and that the income from 

 the forests is constantly increasing because it is only 

 under such conditions the forest income in the govern- 

 ment of Orel could in the course of three years double 

 itself as it has done. This is sufficient to show the 

 characteristic difference between private and crown 

 forests of the Orel government. 



'In the above-mentione 1 pamphlet an idea is propounded 



