CHIEF FIRE WARDEN. Ill 



WURTEMBERG. 



Wurtemberg lies west of Bavaria, and is the third Ger- 

 man state in point of area, its population being a little 

 over 2,000,000. Its greatest length from north to south 

 is 140 miles, and its greatest breadth is 100 miles. One- 

 third of the Black Forest (so called from the dark foliage 

 of its pines), and which forms a sort of a triangle, lies 

 within Wurtemberg, two-thirds being in Baden. The 

 Black Forest has a total length of 93 miles, and its 

 breadth varies from 13 to 46 miles. 



STATE FORESTS. 



The aggregate extent of the state forests is 418,904 

 acres, and they extend over the entire kingdom. Fifty- 

 nine per cent of the forests consists of pine, 20 per cent 

 being pitch pine and 9 per cent white pine. The esti- 

 mated value of the forest land varies from $29 to 158 per 

 acre. The annual aggregate expense of administration 

 of the forest amounts to $1,183,574. Of this $364, 140 

 is paid to wood-cutters, $147,560 is expended on roads, 

 $90,440 in forest culture, $259,468 for pay of officials, 

 $148,468 for forest guards. The revenue was $2, 928, 35 2, 

 yielding a net revenue, after for 1895-1896 deducting all 

 expenditures, of $1,744,788, or $3.63 per acre. The 

 number of acres annually sown to forest is 296, and the 

 number of acres planted to forest 6, 177. 



In regard to reforesting, when the natural seeding of the 

 desired kind of wood occurs in proper time the same is 

 used ; otherwise planting or artificial growing takes place. 

 Natural sowing is estimated at about 25 per cent ; artificial 

 renewing amounts to about 75 per cent. The latter is al- 

 most exclusively done by planting, whereas sowing in free 

 woodland is very seldom applied. It is a principle to 

 maintain (as far as the division of the age of the plantings 



