FORESTS ON THE DNIEPER. 



BELGOROD. KARATCHAN. 



RUILSK. 



Desatins. Faths. Desatins. Faths. Desatins. Faths. 



Forest area, 

 Lease sections, - 

 Land belonging to guards, 

 Under appurtenances, 

 Waste land, - 



LGOV. 



KUKSK. 



TOTAL. 



Desatins. Faths. Desatins. Faths. Desatins. Faths. 



Forest area, - - 22,736 

 Lease sections, - - 364 



Land belonging to guards, 32 

 Under appurtenances, 982 



Waste land, - - 454 



* The general area of private estates is considered to be 

 200,000 desatins. In this are pear plantations, but the sys- 

 tem of using these does not give sufficient reason to include 

 them in the forest area ; and besides this there are waste 

 spaces, so that of actual forest area in private estates 

 there is not more than in the crown estates, that is about 

 170,000 ; and the sum total of forests in the government 

 is about 340,000 desatins, which for 1,827,000 inhabitants, 

 gives a very small quantity. The greatest number of 

 forest estates in the Kursk government are appropriated 

 to supplying wood to the peasantry at a low price ; the 

 sales from the crown estates are only on 11,222 desatins 

 965 fathoms. From the sales of forest materials from this 

 space was received 



In 1864, - - .- - - 14,141 roubles. 



1865, 19,740 



1866, 21,066 



1867, (before the end of the year), 20,236 



1 Consequently in the latter years the gross income per 

 desatin, exclusive of waste land and appurtenances, was 

 about 2 roubles. But if we consider the income from sales 

 in 1861 realising only 6,936 roubles, we remark that in 



