98 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



Where there are no working plans, the cut depends en- 

 tirely on the pleasure of the owner. 



Small holdings of forests, especially those of the peas- 

 antry, are deteriorating. Parts of such forests are changed 

 into fields or meadows; other sections are purchased by 

 the state, communities or wealthy private individuals. 



GRAND DUCHY OF SAX-WEIMAR. 



The area of state forests is 110,910 acres, of private 

 forests 120,510 acres, in the aggregate 231,420 acres, be- 

 ing equal to 25.6 per cent of the total area of the state. 

 The state forests comprise 37 units of administration, in 

 charge of 37 superior forest officers, trained at the forest 

 academy of Eisenach. 



The control of the local forest administration is effected 

 through six forest inspectors, the highest authority in for- 

 estry matters being represented by a forestry bureau, at- 

 tached to the office of the secretary of finances. Forest 

 working plans are prepared and their execution controlled 

 by the "Commission of Forest Working Plans," at Eis- 

 enach, the director of the forest academy being at the 

 same time chief of that commission. The annual yield 

 of the state is 5,864,177 cubic feet of lumber and fire- 

 wood, corresponding with about 125 feet board measure 

 timber plus 0.31 cords fire-wood per acre per annum. 



The main duties of the superior forest officers consist 

 of: Care of the property; maintenance of boundary lines; 

 preventing the acquisition of prescriptive rights to pas- 

 ture, litter wood, etc. , by outsiders, and preventing forest 

 offenses; maintainance of the growing stock of timber; 

 forest utilization and forest regeneration, as prescribed by 

 the working plans; sale of forest produce and control o 

 the book-keeping. 



