NOTES. 



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The net revenues in all the other German state forest ad- 

 ministrations have risen in similar manner, namely, in dollars 

 per each acre under management : 



These figures show the influence of boom prices following 

 the Franco-German war, but the agricultural depression of the 

 last decade in Germany, although noticeable in its effects on 

 wood prices, has hardly interrupted the constant increase in 

 the net yields of forestry. 



The gross yields of these forest properties contribute to the 

 total gross budgets of the state administrations in Prussia, 

 4-5 per cent ; Bavaria, 9-10 per cent ; Saxony, 13-14 per cent ; 

 Wurtemberg, 16 per cent; Baden, 8 per cent; Austria, 0.7 

 per cent; France, 0.7 per cent; Russia, 1.6 per cent. 



A further proof of the efficiency of forest management is 

 to be found not only in the greater total wood production per 

 acre, which has been secured in all states by careful -manage- 

 ment similarly to that recorded for Saxony on p. 452, but 

 also in the larger proportion of timber wood (over 3 inches 

 diameter) which is coming to harvest, in part at least as a 

 result of improved silviculture. 



