FOREST POLICY 



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and in America, the cutting of a thousand feet board measure 

 of logs costs between 60 cents and a dollar. In the state forests 

 of Hessen, the annual expense per acre incurred for salaries, 

 logging, road-building and planting [id est spent on salaries and 

 wages] amounts to $3.18, composed of: 



cutting $1.44 



road making .33 



planting .57 



salaries of rangers and foresters .84 



In the same section of Germany, the wages have risen, in the 

 decade between 1898 and 1907, by 30 0/0. 



Conservative forestry in Germany does not know of "logging 

 camps" ; the country of conservative forestry is so densely settled 

 that the help for the forest is recruited from the settlement 

 nearest the forest. 



The American woodsman is more efficient than the German 

 woodsman ; and his earnings per day are much better, as a con- 

 sequence, than those of the German. 



The figures of the census relative to labor employed in Ameri- 

 can lumbercamps, sawmills and planing mills are as follows: 



The Forest Service claims in circular No. 171 that the American 

 industries which subsist wholly or mainly upon wood pay the 

 wages of more than 1,500,000 men and women. 



The "American Lumberman" estimates that the total number 

 of wage-earners depending on the forest is not far from 750,000. 



