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$8,000,000 average per year, while the following decades 

 showed the averages of 7, 5.5, 5.4, 5.7, respectively ; the cause 

 of it being probably, in the main, the change from timber 

 forest to coppice. 



In Russia a constant increase in receipts during the last 15 

 to 20 years is the result of an improved forest administration ; 

 every increase in expenditures bringing more than a com- 

 mensurate result. 



This is brought out significantly by a comparison of yearly 

 net yields and expenditures which were from 1885 to 1896: 



The German administrations also show this relation of 

 expenditure to net revenues. Not only has every increase 

 in expenditure in each state produced greater efficiency (see 

 p. 327), but the net results from state to state are almost in 

 direct relation to the expenditure, as will appear when com- 

 paring the table of net yields with the following table of 

 expenditures. The total expenditures are for the period from 

 1880 to 1896, .the expenditures for administration alone for 



