FOREST OF AMBOISE 

 TABLE 26.— VOLUME OF OAK IN 1907 



331 



" Conifers. 



average yearly value of the increase in growing stock.*' The owner 

 estimated his real return at 4 per cent. 



(2) In 1906 the expenses (cost of operation) were 37 per cent and 

 the taxes 13 per cent of the gross revenue; the taxes were 0.14 of 1 per 

 cent of the appraised book value. 



(3) It is of interest to note the receipts for hunting, rents, withes, 

 pruning, wood cleared at quarries, grass, stone, seed cutting penalties, 

 miscellaneous receipts, and trespass were about one-ninth the receipts 

 from timber and coppice sales. 



" The A. E. F. purchased $231,600 (1,200,000 francs) worth of coppice and timber 

 (18,760 cubic meters and 26,094 steres) from this forest during 1918-1919; the damages 

 for faulty cutting were $1,930. In addition these high sales values will be partly bal- 

 anced by largely increased working costs for a number of years. The cut in 1909 was 

 4,489 cubic meters and 3,321 steres; 1910, 4,204 cubic meters and 2,697 steres; 1911, 

 2,224 cubic meters and 2,887 steres. Thus the A. E. F. cut about 5 years of timber crops 

 and 9 years of cordwood. This unquestionably damaged the forest from the standpoint 

 of permanent management. 



