134 FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



Rhine, while the largest quantity, particularly the better class of timbers, is 

 shipped to Holland and is there used for shipbuilding. 



But competition also enters more or less into the Thuringian wood trade 

 and therefore a good portion of the home demand is supplied by foreign 

 countries, namely, Austria and Hungary, Sweden and Denmark. 



The import duties in Germany, according to the revised tariff from May, 

 1885, on timber and stock-woods, with or without the bark, are 20 pfennigs 

 (4.8 cents) per 100 kilometers, or 1.20 marks (28.6 cents) per festmeter 

 (cubic meter of solid wood). 



REVENUE FROM GOVERNMENT FORESTS, COST OF MAINTAINING AND MANAGING 

 FORESTS PROFITS OF FOREST CULTURE. 



I submit the following table in order to show the average pecuniary profits 

 of forest culture in the duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. There is little doubt that 

 the results exhibited in this instance would correspond very nearly with those 

 which the return of the other states would show. This table, showing the 

 annual income, the expenditure and the net profits in connection with the 

 103,668 acres of wood land owned and managed by the government of Mein- 

 ingen, is made up from official sources, and the estimations are based on the 

 receipts of former years and on what is so far known of the product of the 

 forests for the current year : 



REVENUES FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOREST AND HUNTING IN THE DUCHY 



OF SAXE-MEININGEN. 



Estimated receipts for the year i88y. 



Wood: 187,028 fm. (cub. met. solid wood) average price ;?2.I9/^ ^411,274.00 



Other sources I 666.00 



Hunting 809.00 



'^°'^' 413.74900 



Estimated expenditures for the same period. 



Salaries of principal officers ; 



4 forestmasters (average per annum, ^1,071) $i^,2%\.(x> 



39 overforesters (average' per annum, §571. 20) 22,276.80 



13 foresters (average per annum, ^362.95) 4,718.35 



Salaries of subordinates : 



21 assistant and candidate foresters (average per annum, 2,219.41) 4,607.68 



Salaries of other employes : 



78 rangers, employed permanently, ^139.62 10,890.88 



37 rangers, employed temporarily, ^^92.88 3,436.72 



Salaries of incidental help 10040 



Salaries of office messengers j .2 gj, 



Rent and miscellaneous expenses : 



Rent allowances to assistant officers entitled to free lodging, to whom rooms 



in the government buildings cannot be furnished 3-^3.20 



Department office expenses : 



Salaries of department chiefs 1 610 i;4 



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