FORESTRY IN ITALY. I 5 7 



The customs duties on imported lumber are, per cwt. : 



Beams and planks in primitive condition $0 2^ 



Lumber partly prepared for market 5 



Lumber ware of general use 12 



Coopers', joiners', turners', wagon-makers' ware 36 



Farts of inlaid floors [ 43 



'Wooden furniture 2 40 



Woodenware of refined make 7 15 



Shoots can be easily obtained by application to the government forest 

 board. As to seeds, I was informed by the president of said board that he 

 can recommend from experience the firm of Christian Giegle, at Nagold, 

 (black forest district), Wiirtemberg. 



C. P. KIMBALL, 



Consul. 



United States Consulate, 



Stuttgart, February p, i88j. 



ITALY. 



REPORT OF CONSUL-GENERAL ALDEN. 

 FOREST AREAS. 



THERE are in Italy 10,270,467 acres of forests, of which 425,835 acres 

 belong to the state and 9,844,632 acres belong to communes, other 

 corporations and private individuals. Of the state forests 145,393 acres are 

 by law declared to be inalienable, and the remaining 280,442 are alienable. 



Of the entire forest area a little more than half is under forest bounds, 

 and the remainder is free from forest bounds. 



I have found it impossible to obtain the precise figures showing the distri- 

 bution of the forest area in Italy owing to the fact that the official statistics 

 do not precisely agree. The following table, however, is very nearly ac- 

 curate : 



Acres. 



Piedmont 1,100,000 



Lombardy 1,000,000 



Venetia 1,200,000 



Liguria 5°°>°°'3 



Emelia 550,000 



Marches and Umbria 1,000,000 



Tuscany 70,000 



Salerno ^ 500,000 



Southern Adriatic provinces 1,200,000 



Southern Mediterranean provinces 2,000,000 



Sicily • 35o.°oo 



Sardinia .; 800,000 



Total 10,270,000 



