166 Austria-Hungary. 



cubic feet of animal cut do not approach the annual in- 

 crement. The State forests yield now in the neighbor- 

 hood of $600,000 net. 



The State interests were ia 1879 placed under 

 the administration of the Department of Agriculture 

 with a technical forester at the head (Oberlandforst- 

 meister) assisted by four section chiefs, one in charge of 

 the State forest administration, one for the adminis- 

 tration of corporation forests, one for the elaboration of 

 working plans and one, with the assistance of 20 forest 

 inspectors having supervision of the execution of all for- 

 est laws. Otherwise the general features of German 

 administrative measures prevail, except that for purposes 

 of executing the protective forest laws, committees com- 

 posed of three members chosen from the county officials 

 co-operate with the government service. 



The law of 1879 provides government supervision of 

 the management of corporation and of protection forests 

 (1 million acres in the mountains and on sanddunes), 

 and prescribes that land unfit for farming, i. e., absolute 

 forest soil (three-quarters of all forest land), no matter 

 by whom owned, is to be reforested within six years 

 after having been stripped. Mountain forests, which 

 are classed as protection forests, as well as entailed 

 properties, must be managed according to working plans 

 approved by the forest department. Violations of this 

 law are liable to be punished by a fine for each acre, im- 

 posed annually as long as the offense continues. Two- 

 thirds of the whole forest area is thus more or less under 

 State supervision, and working plans for over 12 million 

 acres have been or are to be prepared by the government. 

 An area allotment method with a normal forest formula 



