AGRICULTURE ON THE RHINE. Ill 



effects of the rise in this indispensable article are ex- 

 hibited by a table published officially in Baden, and 

 which deserves to be placed by the side of the table 

 drawn up by M. Quetelet, and published in a recent 

 volume of the Belgian Statistical Society's Transactions. 

 The number of convictions for wood-stealing in the Grand 

 Duchy of Baden was, in proportion to the population, 



In 1836 as 1 to G'l inhabitants. 



„ 1837 „ 1 „ 5-2 



„ 1838 „ 1 „ 4-7 „ 



„ 1839 „ 1 „ 4-7 „ 



„ 1840 „ 1 „ 4-5 



„ 1841 „ 1 „ 4-6 



„ 1842 „ 1 „ 4-0 „ 



„ 1843 „ 1 „ 4-7 

 With the rise in price noted in the former table but 

 one, the number of offences increased, and this number 

 in 1843 showed a tendency to diminish, although slightly. 

 In Bavaria, where wood is but about half the price, the 

 number of convictions for stealing in forests amounts but 

 to 1 in 22 inhabitants. 



The periods for clearing and thinning timber-forests 

 are shown by the tables to be in the 30th, 60th, 90th, 

 120th, and 150th years. The wood gained upon a 

 Prussian morgen (1^ English acres) at these various 

 periods, reduced to the measure usual on the Rhine — the 

 "klafter" of 108 cubic feet — is, according to our au- 

 thority, 



