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correspond with the customary British (square- 
of-quarter-girth) measurement, which makes an 
allowance of 214 per cent. for wastage in con- 
version—is not an unusual yield for conifer crops 
(larch, pine, and fir, each of them) on good soil. 
Indeed, this quantity is often far exceeded on 
good forest land in Germany. And, as we have 
equally good soil and a climate rather better than 
that of Continental Europe for the growth of 
timber in general, it must be due either to want 
of technical knowledge, or to insistence on wrong 
methods, or to some combination of both of 
these causes, that our coniferous timber crops do 
not, within Mr. Watney’s extensive experience, 
give so good a yield as is common throughout 
Germany. This may be seen from the data 
already given in chap. ix for Hanover, but simi- 
lar data collected in other parts of Germany and 
tabulated for local use, all show that this result 
is attainable under good economic management. 
That such is the case may be seen at a glance 
from the Tables of Average Yield per acre for 
the kingdom of Saxony given below. But I 
must first apologise for thus again bringing for- 
ward German Forestry statistics in default of any 
