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SOURCES OF WOOD AND LUMBER SUPPLY. 



Professor Landolt, who has already been quoted, estimates that in the 

 607,725 households, forming, according to the last census, the population of 

 Switzerland, there are annually consumed 3,646,350 cubic meters of wood, 

 or 6 cubic meters per household. Now, the total product of wood of all 

 kinds useful for firewood, including vine-cuttings, orchard branches, and 

 every other available material, do not possibly exceed 3,000,000 cubic 

 meters, leaving a deficiency of 646,350, which can only be supplied by 

 import. This deficiency does not include, moreover, all the firewood con- 

 sumed in factories, shops and public buildings, of which no reliable estimate 

 can, however, be made here. In regard to lumber the tables are reversed, 

 the exports largely exceeding the imports, and consisting largely in enormous 

 shipments of rough pine planks to France. 



Exports. 



Imports. 



Kind. 



Germany. 



Italy. 



Elsewhere. . Total. 



Raw lumber 



Firewood 



Ebony wood 



Other woods 



Total 



E, F. 16 



Francs. 

 2,601,629 

 2,192,600 

 , 56,930 

 573, 543 



Francs. 



918,575 



96,892 



4,595 



25,010 



Francs. 

 267,848 



65,472 



70,43s 



976,043 



Francs. 

 35,664 

 59,410 



* 1,370 

 69,337 



Francs. 

 2,520 



94, 420 

 119,936 



Francs. 

 3,826,236 



2,414,375 



227, 750 



*, 763,869 



5, 424, 702 



1,045,072 



1, 379*798 



165,781 



216,876 



8,232,230 



