70 ANNUAL REPORT OF 



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. 



1 During the five years lying between 1887 an d 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- 



