74 ALGERIA 



The forest products are now divided into (a) principal products 

 and (b) miscellaneous products. The principal products include 

 cork, wood, and bark cut under ordinary, extraordinary, or 

 accidental fellings. The principal products are, in theory, sold 

 by public auction standing or by a unit price. If ordinary sales, 

 they can be made by agreement in cases of special authoriza- 

 tion by the governor and after a pubKc auction has been held 

 and no satisfactory bids received. Accidental products may be 

 sold by agreement, when they cannot be auctioned, and if there 

 is an unforeseen emergency. The minor or miscellaneous prod- 

 ucts include the hunt, lease of agriculture land in openings, 

 acorns, grazing of all kinds, collection of alfa, dead wood, stumps, 

 weeds, seeds, fruit, grass, diss, stone, soil, sand, etc. The con- 

 servators are authorized to recommend to the prefects the lease 

 of the hunt, agriculture land and quarries (if no phosphates 

 are included), up to periods of a year, if the annual rental is 

 less than 2000 francs ($386). The governor approves leases 

 above this amount for periods of 9 to 18 years. The sale by 

 agreement of so-called minor products is on the basis of a price 

 schedule approved annually. 



Sales of cork bark are made at public auction, at the most 

 centrally located town in the conservation. The cork has been 

 previously collected at depots on each forest and divided into 

 piles, which are consecutively numbered. The sales book ^° 

 describes each bark pile as follows: serial number, number of 

 the pile, weight in quintaux, classification of the cork, names of 

 forest and depot, with the number of kilometres of transport 

 to market. It seems to be the policy to make the piles (which 

 are sold separately) small, usually 300 to 500 quintaux (66,120 

 to 110,200 pounds), and rarely exceeding 800 (176,320 pounds). 



The expense of collection is usually 5 to 6 francs ($0.96 to 

 $1.16) per quintal (220 pounds). The removal of the bark costs 

 2.80 francs ($0.54), the transport 1.60 to 2.30 francs ($0.31 to 

 $0.44), and the remainder is made up of miscellaneous expenses. 

 The judgment of the local conservators is firmly in favor of the 



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 stantine, pp. 1-24. 



