NOTES. 467 



30 cents per acre, varying (in 1895) between 17.2 cents in 

 Prussia and 72.2 cents in Saxony. The forest soil in Prussia 

 in the tax lists is assessed upon the basis of a net yield varying 

 from 18.3 cents to $1.25, average 49.5 cents per acre, while 

 the farm soils are taxed upon the basis of a net yield of 81 to 

 396 cents, or 182.5 ln the average. 



P. 263. Forest Fire Insurance. The Gladbacher Fire In- 

 surance Company in Germany insures forest properties ac- 

 cording to age, species, and local danger. The fire insurance 

 value of young stands is calculated by a discount with a 5 per 

 cent interest rate on the final harvest value ; for mature stands 

 the actual present value is supposed to persist for 10 years. 

 The premiums based for each 1000 mark insurance value are 

 in the average, 



for broad-leaved forests, . . . 0.85 mark ; 

 for mixed conifer and broad-leaved forest, 1.20 mark ; 

 for conifers pure, 2 marks. 



The minimum rate is 0.45 mark, the maximum 4 marks per 

 1000 mark value. 



NOTES TO CHAPTER X. 



There should have been mentioned in the text, as of par- 

 ticular interest to us, what position our neighbor Canada has 

 taken with regard to her forestry interests. 



Like the United States Canada possesses two forest regions, 

 the eastern and the western, divided by a forestless prairie 

 and plains country. The northern climate reduces both in 

 the east and the west the species composing the forest ; but 

 on the whole, the type of forest found at the boundary of the 

 United States continues for a considerable distance into Can- 

 ada, until with the decimation of species and decrease in de- 

 velopment, the more or less open woodlands of the northern 

 forest type are reached, where spruce, aspen, and birch of 

 inferior quality and no commercial, although of local value. 



