254 FORESTRY IN LITHUANIA. 



(2.) TREES OF MIDDLE GROWTH. 



No. of Trees. Cubic feet 



Pine and fir wood, from 100 to 140 yrs. old & over 1,439,800 - 43,194,000 

 Oak, ,, 120 ,, 160 ,, 503,200 = 20,128,000 



(3.) YOUNG TREES. 



Pine and fir, from 40 to 100 years old and over, 1,650,000 = 24,750,000 

 Oak 60 ,,120 700,000 = 11,900,000 



(4.) UNDERGROUND. 



Pine and fir, from 15 to 40 years old 2,550,000 = 15,300,000 



Oak, 25,, 60 900,000= 9,050,000 



Total, 9,373,050 = 194,898,000 



There are then given the details and description of the 

 wood used for home trade, and the respective quantities 

 sent to such places as St Petersburg, Odessa, NicolaiefT, 

 &c., in one year, the summary of which is given as 

 follows : 



HOME CONSUMPTION. 



TREES OF MATURE AGE. 



No. of trees. Cubic feet. 



Pine and fir, from 140 to 170 years old, 579,000 = 20,265,000 



Oak, 160 300 13,500 = 9,940,500 



TREES OF MIDDLE GROWTH. 



Pine and fir, from 100 to 140 years old, 559,000 = 16,810,000 



Oak, 120 ,, 160 58,000 = 2,352,000 



YOUNG TREES. 



Pine and fir, from 40 to 100 years old, 677,000 = 10.155,000 



Oak, ,, 60 120 , 400,000 = 6,800,000 



UNDERGROWTH. 



Pine and fir, from 15 to 40 years old, 1,056,000 = 6,396.000 



Oak, 25 26 ,, 1,000,000=10,000,000 



Total, 4,353,300 = 82,718,800 



Having given these statistics, the writer goes on to 

 show how grave the consequences of the present system 

 of indiscriminate and wholesale destruction of the forests 

 must inevitably prove, and urges that immediate 

 measures should be taken to prevent further devastation. 

 He states it emphatically as his opinion that if the whole of 

 the trees in these districts, of the first and second 

 growths which form the staple of the export trade 



