64 FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



Other expenses. 



Incidental house expenses M. 500 



Mayor of Tharandt for assistance in upholding the academic discipline 100 



Academic excursions 2,900 



Stipends for poor students 1,05° 



Support of library, natural, historical and technical collections, as well as the pur- 

 chase of apparatus for geodetical and zoological practice, and for investigation in 



vegetable physiology 7,000 



Forest garden 3,6oo 



Incidentals in the chemical laboratories 2,300 



Repairs to the academic building 3,ooo 



Contribution to the "Tharandt Chronicle" 300 



Miscellaneous 2,500 



Enlargement of the academy and furnishing the new rooms 12,000 



Total expenses M. 85,580 



Statement. 



Expenses M. 85,580 



Receipts 20,600 



Deficiency M. 64,980 



SEEDS. 



Plants and young trees are sold from the offices of the royal forest districts, 

 though communities and the larger proprietors maintain their own nurseries. 



For the production of wood seed there is a plot in the forest district of 

 Auerbach, though seeds are more generally obtained from Blankenberg, in 

 the Hartz Mountains. 



REVENUES. 



The following are general statistics of receipts and expenditures for the 

 crown and state forests in the year 1886: 



Receipts. 



For sale of wood M. 10,687,170 



Other revenues from forests 227 000 



Hunting rents j^joo 



Other receipts 27,000 



State appropriation 2C 000 



"^"'^^ M. 10,985,670 



In 1886 797,550 cubic meters of hard wood were sold at 13.40 marks per 

 cubic meter, against 800,100 cubic meters in the preceding year at 12.50 marks 

 per cubic meter. 



The forest revenues may be itemized thus : 



Various revenues from forests ir £„.,.„ 



iM. 60,000 



House and other rents ,£_ 



102,000 



Peat cuttings 



° • 5,000 



Total ,, 



M. 227,000 



