in the same year. Between 1901 and 1911 (the last- 

 year for which figures are available) both income 

 and expenditures (appropriations) rose rapidly, the 

 former reaching $3,000.000 in 1911 and the latter 

 $975,000 for the same year. Thus, it will be seen that 

 the state forests of Finland yielded a net revenue of 

 $2,075,000 in 1911 and probably continued to yield 

 not less than that amount until the outbreak of the 

 Great War. 



The work of accurately cruising the state forests 

 was not begun until 1904. This work was incom- 

 plete when the war broke out in 1914, but the pre- 

 liminary summation of the work completed at that 

 time indicates that there are about 121,000.000 trees 

 over ten inches in diameter (measured 4 feet 3 inches 

 above the ground). This is a considerably larger 

 number of trees than there were supposed to be. 



The timber on the State Forests is sold by auction 

 usually by the tree but sometimes by volume. The 

 routine of selling the timber is similar to that fol- 

 lowed by the U. S. Forest Service that is, the large 

 sales are made by the central office while the small 

 ones are made by the local offices. Between 1900 

 and 1910 the total sales ran from 1,000,000 to 3,000,- 

 000 trees per annum and the stumpage price ran from 

 .45 to .65 per tree. 



But the State does not, by any means, control all 

 the forests of Finland. There are about 29,000,000 

 acres of privately owned woods, of which 24,500,000 

 acres are classed as good quality forest land, and it 

 is from these privately owned woods, which are more 

 accessible than those owned by the state, that the 



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