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FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND 



secured here, of from $1.50 to $5 per acre for the large forest 

 areas, and much higher returns on exceptionally situated and 

 intensively managed forests; but of course it will take time. 

 Forestry has been practiced in the countries from which these 

 figures have been taken for fifty to one hundred years, and 

 the net returns increased from little or nothing to the present 

 amounts. 



The following table shows the net annual income from forested 

 areas in several European countries: 



1 Usually the larger the area of a country the smaller are the net returns per acre. 



2 The Prussian state forests have increased their net return per acre from $1.36 in 1890 to $2.52 

 in 1907. 



High returns per acre from the business of forestry can only 

 be secured by intensive management requiring large annual ex- 

 penditures. For example, the state forests of Bavaria in 1909 

 gave gross returns of $6.11 per acre of which $2.61 were taken 

 by expenditures, leaving $3.50 per acre as the net return. In the 

 Prussian state forests the same year, gross returns amounted to 



