106 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



100 years. It cannot be said what the net revenue is per 

 acre, as the greater part of the product is used at the 

 works in form of coal or fuel. The average yearly growth 

 per * 'tunnland' ' ought to be 40 cubic feet, of which one 

 fourth, or 10 cubic feet, should be saw timber of the net 

 value of 1.50 kroner; 10 cubic feet of building timber, 

 worth i kroner; 20 cubic feet of wood, worth 0.70 kronor, 

 or, for the 40 cubic feet, 3.20 kronor (equal to $0.85). 



The income from game is not large. There are shot 

 annually 12 elks, many hares and game birds. 



SWITZERLAND. 



The Swiss Confederation is composed of twenty-two 

 cantons, which are separate and sovereign states; and 

 while each canton has legislative authority over forests, 

 the Confederation also exercises legislative authority over 

 them in certain regards. Under article 24, of the Federal 

 Constitution of May 29, 1894, the Confederation controls 

 only the forests of the high regions, which are about 65 

 per cent of the total forest area of Switzerland. It is 

 true that since the popular vote of July n, 1897, which 

 revises the said article 24, the Confederation has from 

 now on the right of inspection of the forest police of the 

 whole of Switzerland. 



The federal law of March 24, 1876, which puts into ex- 

 ecution the above-named article 24 of the constitution, 

 was promulgated for the forests of the high regions. By 

 the terms of that law the inspection by the Confederation 

 extends over the entire territory of the cantons of Uri, 

 Schwytz, Unterwald, Claris, Appenzell, Grisons, Tessin 

 and Valais and over the mountainous parts of the can- 

 tonal territories of Zurich, Berne, Luzerne, Zoug, Fri- 

 burg, St. Gall, Jura and Vaud; but the law does not ap- 

 ply to the forests of the -plains of the last mentioned 



