FORESTS ON THE DNIEPER. 



169 



Waste land, 



454 752 



501 718 1,532 13 



' The general area of private estates is considered to be 

 200,000 desatins. In this are pear plantations, but the sys- 

 tem of using these Hoes not give sufficient reason to include 

 them in the forest area ; and besides this there are waste 

 spaces, so that of actual forest area in private estates 

 there is not more than in the crown estates, that is about 

 170,000 ; and the sum total of forests in the government 

 is about 340,000 desatins, which for 1,827,000 inhabitants, 

 gives a very small quantity. The greatest number of 

 forest estates in the Kursk government are appropriated 

 to supplying wood to the peasantry at a low price ; the 

 sales from the crown estates are only on 11,222 desatins 

 965 fathoms. From the sales of forest materials from this 

 space was received 



In 1864, 14,141 roubles. 



1865, 19,740 



1866, 21,066 



1867, (before the end of the year), 20,236 



1 Consequently in the latter years the gross income per 

 desatin, exclusive of waste land and appurtenances, was 

 about 2 roubles. But if we consider the income from sales 

 in 1861 realising only 6,936 roubles, we remark that in 



