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(22^ to 25 cents) per laborer in the basin of the Vistula, 

 while it becomes less, being 20 cents per day in the eastern 

 provinces, and runs up as high as 35 and 45 cents per day 

 in unpopulated districts. Generally the laborers form 

 themselves into an * 'Artel" or association having a "star- 

 osta" or ' 'senior" at the head, which directs the work and 

 acts as intermediary between the agents and laborers. 



Question 4. What is the annual expense of administer- 

 ing the state forests, and does such expense include forestry 

 instruction and the purchase of additional lands? 



The expense of administering the State forests includ- 

 ing expenses of forestry instruction amounted in 1904, and 

 is about an average, to $5,570,773. 



Question 5. Amount of annual revenue? 



The revenues from the State forests in 1904 amounted 

 to $24,650,278. 



Question 6. Is clear cutting or selection cutting mostly 

 practiced? 



In state forests selection cutting is mostly practiced. 



Question 7. About what proportion of cut over land 

 becomes reforested by natural seeding and what by artifi- 

 cial planting or sowing ? 



The report of state forests for 1905 shows that the 

 state, when it sells its forests to private parties for exploi- 

 tation, receives from the purchaser a pecuniary guarantee 

 for the proper and full exploitation of the contract. And 

 these sums when not returned to the contractors on ac- 

 count of improper fulfilment of their contract, form a fund 

 used in reforesting or planting forests. Thus in 1905 from 

 the sums thus obtained and from credits obtained for that 

 purpose: (a) 21,241 acres were artificially planted; (b) 

 7,290 acres of planting were finished; (c) 126,052 acres 

 were started for replanting ; (d) 1 05, 799 acres were worked 

 at, and (e) 38,383 acres already planted received supple- 



