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FORESTRY IN FRANCE. 



The following table indicates the receipts by the government during the 

 year 1 886 in each of the two departments which constitute the Rouen reserve : 



Principal products 

 Contingent 



Total 



Seine 

 Inferieure. 



Francs. 

 990,950 

 112,960 



,103,910 



Francs. 

 431,325 

 46,675 



478,000 



The expenses were as follows : 



First. Salaries paid to agents of all grades. 



Second. The expense of maintenance, building roads and forest houses. 



Third. Nurseries and transplanting trees. 



Fourth. Taxes paid on the land to departments and communes. 



Fifth. Miscellaneous expenses. 



The expenses in this reserve for the year 1886 were — 



The forests belonging to the communes and public institutions are subject 

 to the forestry regime. 



The product arising from the cutting of wood can be sold by the forestry 

 administration (the money being paid into the treasury of the commune), or 

 may be delivered in kind, that is to say the wood having been cut under the 

 direction of the mayor of the commune, under the supervision of the forestry 

 administration, can be divided among the inhabitants of the commune. The 

 forestry administration does not interfere with the distribution. The inhab- 

 itants of communes which possess forests, can pasture a certain number of 

 domestic animals, such as cows, sheep, and hogs. Certain communes, from 

 a custom of long standing, have assumed the right, which is granted them, of 

 pasturing in the "domanial forests" a limited number of cattle under certain 

 restrictions. The forestry administration allows pasturage to others, who have 

 no right, by custom or otherwise, at so much per head. This practice pre- 

 vails in the Seine Inferieure, in the forest of Emoy (chiefly oak), the acorns 

 from which are peculiarly adapted to the fattening of hogs. 



CUSTOMARY MODE OF MANAGING AND MAINTAINING FORESTS. 



The greater part of the "domanial forests ' ' of this reserve are of full grown 

 trees, or are managed with a view of becoming such. The forestry adminis- 



