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VII. Extraordinary expenses (purchase of real estate, 

 new buildings, new surveys, demarkation of bound- 

 ary lines, forest working plans, prescriptive rights, 



etc.) 143,845.88 



VIII. Administration at headquarters (expenses at 

 the territorial offices and at the ministry of agri- 

 culture) 151,340.20 



Grand total expense ,. ..$1,803,755.89 



During the same period namely, during the twenty 

 years between 1874 and 1893 the mean annual gross re- 

 ceipts amounted to: 



I. From forestry (sale of fuel and timber, of charcoal, 



of minor forest produce, etc.) $1,727,805.73 



II. From agriculture (rentals from land leased, etc.) 161,592.16 



III. Technological industries (rents of buildings and 

 establishments, rents from shooting and fishing li- 

 censes, rents from yards, etc. ) 291,747.02 



IV. Money refunded 6,524.15 



V. Extraordinary revenue 19,492.24 



Total receipts $2,207,161.30 



To the latter figures there must be added the value of 

 the prescriptive rights under which the inhabitants 

 of certain villages have the privilege of taking tim- 

 ber, fuel, grass, etc., from the forest without re- 

 funding any money for such taking, estimated at. . 290,336.40 



Therefore grand total gross receipts $2,497,497.70 



Deducting from this amount the expenses previously 



mentioned, there remains a net revenue of $693,741.81 



Thus the entire state and fund forests of the Austrian 

 empire have netted on an average, during the above 

 named period of twenty years, 26.8 cents per acre per 

 year. 



During the five years lying between 1887 and 1893 there 

 were planted up annually on an average 15,614 acres, by 

 means of planting seeds or planting seedlings, at an ex- 

 pense of $28,586.01 for labor only. To these planting ex- 



