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total annual output of technical timber and of fuel wood is 

 the following: 



Saxony Timber 83o/o Fuel Wood 17o/o 



Wiirttemberg ,, 63o/o ., ,, 37o/o 



Baden 48o/o ,, 52o/o 



Bavaria ,, 52o;o 48o/o 



Hessen 40o/o 60o;o 



There are at hand no statistics with reference to the possible 

 increment production of the forests of the United States. The 

 amount of increment depends largely upon the amount of 

 precipitations, upon the growing season and upon the quality 

 of the soil. These factors are more favorable, on an average, 

 to increment production in the United States, than in Germany. 

 It stands to reason, as a consequence, that the production, per 

 acre and per year, of forests under conservative forestry might 

 far exceed, in America, the data obtained in Germany. If the 

 total acreage of forests and forest lands in the United States 

 is 550 million acres, the annual production of increment obtain- 

 able from them in the distant future, under proper forestry 

 methods, might easily exceed 100 billion feet board measure. 



The Forest Service, in circular 171, estimates the yearly growth 

 of wood iiT our forests not to exceed 12 cubic feet per acre; 

 so that the yearly growth in our forests is less than seven 

 billion cubic feet altogether. 



The Forest Service adds that 36o/o of our woodlands are 

 composed of primeval forests mainly in the Northern Rockies, 

 and on the Pacific coast in which yearly growth is balanced by 

 decay; 46o/o of our woodlands (mainly in the Southern iVloun- 

 tains, and in the Southern Pine Belt) are partly cut over or burnt 

 over, though re-stocking annually with enough young growth 

 to produce a merchantable crop; and ISo/o of our woodlands 

 (chiefly in the Lake States and in the Southern Pine Belt) are 

 cut over and burnt over so heavily that young growth is 

 either wholly lacking upon them, or too scanty to make mer- 

 chantable timber. 



The vast forests of Russia in Europe are said to produce, per 

 acre and year, 31 cubic feet of wood and timber; those of 

 Hungary are producing, per acre and year, 50 cubic feet; while 



