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land area) or .63 acre per capita, which although largely 

 under conservative management has long ago ceased to 

 supply by its annual increment (about 53 cubic feet 

 per acre) the needs of the population; the imports dur- 

 ing the last 40 years, when Germany began to show ex- 

 cess of imports over exports, having grown in volume 

 at the average rate of 10% to now round 300 million 

 cubic feet (80 million dollars) or 15% of the consump- 

 tion. 



The larger part of Germany, two thirds of the terri- 

 tory and population is controlled by modem Prussia, 

 with a total forest area of 25 million acres; Bavaria 

 comes next with one seventh of the land area and 6 

 million acres of forest ; the five larger states of Wiirtem- 

 i berg, Baden, Saxony, Mecklenburg and Hesse, occupying 

 together another seventh of the territory with 5 million 

 acres of forest. The balance of the area is divided 

 among the other 19 states. 



Fifty per cent, of Germany roughly speaking, is plains 

 coimtry, the larger part in the northern and eastern ter- 

 ritory of Prussia, 25% is hill countr}', mostly in West 

 and Middle Germany and 25% mountain country, the 

 larger portion in the southern states. 



There are at best only five species of timber of high 

 economic general importance, the ( Scotch) pine which cov- 

 ers large areas in the northern sandy plain and the lighter 

 soils in the south; the (Xorway) spruce and (Silver) fir 

 which form forests in the southwestern and other moun- 

 tain regions and represent, in mixture with broadleaf 

 forest, a goodly proportion in the northeastern lowlands ; 

 the (English) oak, of which botanically two species are 

 recognized, and the beech being the most important 



