FORESTRY OF JAPAN. 79 



(In the table, there is not included the annual output of 

 boughs, faggots, and stumps ; all figures bellow one shakujime 

 are cut off, and the same shall be done in all the tables 

 inserted after this). 



Such a great increase of the annual yield in these ten years 

 is due on the one hand to the fact that with the progress of 

 the method of management in these forests, the exact state of 

 these forests became clearly known so that the felling of trees, 

 rightly carried out, was increased, and on the other hand it is 

 the result of the increase of the demand for the products with 

 the improvement of the means of traffic. The utilized area of 

 State forests was only about 2.0% of the whole area in 1898 

 while in 1937 it increased to about 44/q, an ^ the utilized area 

 was increased by 22 times while the amount of timber produced 

 2.3 times. 



As is seen in the foregoing table, the output against the 

 whole area of the forests in these ten years has increased from 

 0.55 shakujime to 1.43 shakujime per elio in average, while the 

 increase was from 2.J shakujime to 3.3 shakujime per <f/b 

 against the utilized area. 



This output of products is rather small in amount against 

 the total stocks in these forests, and we can see that the 

 amount of the output is less than half the amount of trees 



