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entire area. The wooded land belonging to the state in the four head-forest 

 districts of Marienberg, Schwarzenberg, Eibenstock and Auerbach, which 

 include also portions of the districts of Freiberg, Floha and Zwickau, and 

 of Oelsnitz and Plauen, amounted in 1885 to 72,682 hectares. As to private 

 forests no accurate details can be given, as their management is left to their 

 proprietors, and as no inquiry as to their improvement has been made for 

 a number of years. In this consular district there are only forests belonging 

 to the state, to private persons and to communities. Those owned by indi- 

 viduals are not extensive, nor are those owned by communities. To the 

 south of Annaberg there are no common forests, but Annaberg itself, and 

 the neighboring towns of Ehrenfriedersdorf and Geyer, have possessions in 

 this way. The only private forests of any size in this immediate section are 

 in and around the two last-mentioned towns. There are none belonging to 

 the king. 



FOREST PRIVILEGES AND ORGANIZATION. 



In the state forest pasturage is not allowed, nor do the people have any 

 privileges in them, save that the poor are allowed to gather the brushwood 

 which remains unused, also the berries and mushrooms. The state forests 

 are divided into four districts and forty-five sub-districts. The first are 

 managed each by a chief warden and the latter each by a high forester, who 

 has under him the necessary assistants for the cultivation and protection of 

 the forests, viz., forester, assistant forester and warden. The financiering is 

 in the hands of five forest financiers, whose headquarters are at Marienberg, 

 Annaberg, Schwarzenberg, Eibenstock and Auerbach. The quantity of 

 wood felled in the state forests in the year 1885, the last for which a report- 

 has been made, amounted in the four forest districts, exclusive of brushwood, 

 to 380,074 /«^ metres, of which 321,813, or 85 per cent., was suitable for 

 and used for timber. 



REVENUE. 



The gross revenue was as follows : 



Wood M. 5,487,150 



Hunting 4i786 



Use of open ground, meadows, quarries and turf lands 108,155 



M. 5,600,091 



The expenses were as follows : 



For inspection and management, inclusive of M. 70,748 for keeping the buildings 



of the forest service in good condition M. 584,371 



For forest improvement, cultivating, drainage, &c 3io>5S4 



For expenses of felling and all sundry expenses 739,100 



M. 1,634,025 



There was therefore at the close of the year the handsome showing of a 

 net profit of 3,966,066 marks, or 52 marks and 43 pfennige per hectare, 

 reckoning the entire area of state forests in the district, including open 

 grounds. 



