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FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



well known that the less forest the less rainfall, and sections of country with- 

 out reasonable areas of forest lands are subject to long and serious drouths. 



SOURCES OF LUMBER SUPPLY. 



As the district does not raise or produce the lumber to meet its wants a 

 considerable import of timber and lumber takes place, especially from the 

 Upper Rhine and Bavaria, also from Norway and Sweden and from the 

 United States. Diisseldorf and Duisburg are the chief places of import for 

 lumber of all kinds. 



Within the last few years the customs duties on lumber importations have 

 been about as follows, viz.: 



Per fest- 

 metcr. 



For stockwood with all bark 



For stockwood roughly worked out on the ends 



For stockwood roughly worked out on both sides and ends. 

 For timber, lumber, boards, and planks 



SELLERS OF SEEDS AND SHOOTS. 



There are at^ this place the following persons engaged in the business who 

 are considered reliable, viz.: G. Struch & Co., Diisseldorf, Concordiastrasse; 

 Otten & Co., Dusseldorf, Bolkerstrasse ; C. Caasmann & Sohn, Oststrasse; 

 and in Essen the following: Carl Arends, Kettwigerchauss6 51 ; Hermann 

 Becker, Bahnhofstrasse 102; Karl Bohnert, Kettwigerstrasse 3«. 



The existing laws in force in this district are the same as those within the 

 district of the consulate-general at Berlin. They are made by the royal gov- 

 ernment at Berlin for the several forest districts. 



United States Consulate, 



Dusseldorf, April 26, 1887. 



D. J. PARTELLO, 



Consul. 



Dusseldorf, Germany, 

 Office of President of Rhein, Prussia, February 2j, 1S87. 



Sir: I beg to reply to your letter of the 1 8th instant in regard to forest matters, that the 

 royal government at this place would not be able to give you a sufficient answer to the ques- 

 tions made by you, because this portion of the government district belongs to that part of the 

 Prussian monarchy in which the least number of forests are to be found; moreover, the 

 greater part of the questions are of so general a nature that to answer them in accordance 

 with the situation of this small portion of the monarchy would produce a false idea. 



I recommend you, however, sir, to apply to the "Royal Ministerium for Agriculture, 

 Domams and Forests" in Berlin. But if you should like to have any information about 

 (specially) just the portions of forests situated here, which I consider would not be very inter- 

 esting, we would be willing to demand of the royal government that the desired infonnation 

 be given you. Yours, faithfully. 



BERLEPSH, 



Regierutigs President ' 



