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as to the necessity for the peasantry to occupy themselves 

 with the planting of forests ; one cannot but wish for this 

 idea a realisation in practice, particularly if with the 

 trouble taken about the future forests the existing forests 

 be not forgotten. 



Remarks on the Wood Trade of the Government of Kursk. 



'The forests of the Kursk government are generally 

 not taken into account in speaking of the Dnieper basin ; 

 the reason is that the Kursk forests are situated too far 

 to the east of the general mass of the Dnieper forests. 

 The greater part of the Kursk forests are on the confluents 

 of the river Seyina, which forms a part of the Dnieper 

 basin ; and cutting in, as it were, in a long and narrow 

 stripe between the Oka and Don basin, it is situated at the 

 northern, and at the same time, the most eastern part of 

 the woodless belt of the Dnieper basin. 



' From the banks of the river Seyma commences that 

 part of the Dnieper basin country where there is little 

 wood ; likewise from the river Seyma commences in a 

 southern direction the preponderance of oak, and that of 

 pine ceases ; finally, from the banks of the Seyma 

 commences that part of the Dnieper basin in which there 

 is not sufficient wood for local consumption. Further 

 east than the government of Kursk forest materials are 

 not taken from the Dnieper forests ; and only south to the 

 governments of Kharkov, and partly Starropol and the land 

 of the Don-Cossacks, are taken forest manufactures of oak ; 

 and with regard to building materials, boards, and planks, 

 these are taken from Glonchov and Novgorodseversk, 

 districts in the government of Tchernigov, through the 

 government of Kursk (Pontivle district), to the districts 

 of Soumnic and Lebedian in the goverment of Kharkov. 

 In this way forest materials very seldom get to the towns 

 of Achtiska and Bogodouihov, and still more rarely to 

 Kharkov, so that the boundary of their spreading south- 

 east may be taken the post road from Kursk to Kharkov 



