FORESTRY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. I I 



can dig from eighty to one hundred holes per day and that " one woman " 

 can place daily from four hundred to six hundred trees in -the holes. In 

 digging the holes care is taken to displace the surrounding soil as little as 

 possible, so that the moisture may be preserved. 



The holes are dug in the fall; the planting takes place either in the fall, 

 winter, or spring, as the weather may permit. 



All this work is performed under the supervision and direct advice and 

 control of forest officers who are paid by tl\e government. 



SOURCES OF LUMBER SUPPLY — ^TRADE IN LUMBER AND CUSTOMS DUTIES. 



The lumber supply of the Empire is principally derived from its forests; 

 comparatively little lumber is imported. 



The extent of the trade in lumber and wood is shown by the following 

 table, exhibiting the export and import of the same for the period from Jan- 

 uary I, 1886, to November i, 1886. 



I am unable to give the figures for the whole year, as the statistics for the 

 months of November and December, 1886, will not be published until some 

 time in February or March next. 



Export. Import. 



Firewood meter centner... 1,603,494 542,663 



Tan bark do... 9,752 807 



Wood for manufacturing purposes, hard do... 1,320,715 136,646 



Same, soft do... 5,726,765 641,731 



Barrel staves do... 1,224,282 34,343 



Railroad ties do... 270,248 13,561 



Sawed lumber, hard do... 671,966 24,396 



Same, soft do... 5,804,783 106,981 



I meter centner^ 221^ pounds English. 



Customs duties. — No duty whatever is imposed on wood, lumber, or staves, 

 whether of European or Foreign growth or manufacture. 



In compliance with instructions I herewith give the names of four reliable 

 sellers of seeds and shoots in my district. , 



Seeds and plants. — Swoboda Neffe Nachfolger, Porzellangane No. 14, 

 Vienna; Wejrringers H. Nachfolger, Rothenthurmstrasse No. 26, Vienna. 



Nurseries. — Abel, Rudolph & Co., Hietzing, Anhofstrasse No. 40, bei 

 Wien; Bachratys, Lukas, Wiltwe, Liesing, bie Wien. 



I also transmit herewith two copies of the general forestry laws of Austria 

 and a translation of the same. 



I have also mailed this day to your Department a treatise on forest culture, 

 based upion theory and experience, written by Ludwig Jaeger, forest inspector 

 of the Duke of Wittgenstein, which work undoubtedly contains more extended 

 and reliable information on the subject of forest culture than I could possibly 

 gather by mere inquiry from experts and forest officials. 



EDMUND JUSSEN, 



Consul- General. 

 United States Consulate-General, 



Vienna, January ji, 1887. 



