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correspond with the customary British (square- 

 of- quarter-girth) measurement, which makes an 

 allowance of 2i per cent, for wastage in con- 

 version is not an unusual yield for conifer crops 

 (larch, pine, and fir, each of them) on good soil. 

 Indeed, this quantity is often far exceeded on 

 good forest land in Germany. And, as we have 

 equally good soil and a climate rather better than 

 that of Continental Europe for the growth of 

 timber in general, it must be due either to want 

 of technical knowledge, or to insistence on wrong 

 methods, or to some combination of both of 

 these causes, that our coniferous timber crops do 

 not, within Mr. Watney's extensive experience, 

 give so good a yield as is common throughout 

 Germany. This may be seen from the data 

 already given in chap, ix for Hanover, but simi- 

 lar data collected in other parts of Germany and 

 tabulated for local use, all show that this result 

 is attainable under good economic management. 

 That such is the case may be seen at a glance 

 from the Tables of Average Yield per acre for 

 the kingdom of Saxony given below. But I 

 must first apologise for thus again bringing for- 

 ward German Forestry statistics in default of any 



