310 ECONOMICS OF FORESTRY. 



The state and Crown forests are all under well- 

 organized forest administrations, sometimes ac- 

 credited to the minister of finance, sometimes to 

 the minister of agriculture. These yield an an- 

 nual net revenue of from ^i to $S per acre of 

 forest area, with a constant increase from year 

 to year, which will presently be very greatly ad- 

 vanced when the expenditures for road building 

 and other improvements cease. 



In the state management the constant care is to 

 avoid sacrificing the economic significance of the 

 forest to the financial benefits that can be derived, 

 and the amount cut is most conservative. 



The Imperial forests are of course managed 

 in the same spirit as those of the several state 

 forests. 



While the present communities, villages, towns, 

 and cities are only political corporations, they 

 still retain, in some cases in part, the character of 

 the "mark," which was based upon the holding 

 of property. 



The supervision which the princes exercised in 

 their capacity of Obermaerker or as possessors of 

 the right to the chase, remained, although based on 

 other principles, as a function of the state, when 

 the " mark " communities collapsed ; the principles 

 being that the state was bound to protect the 

 interest of the eternal juristical person of the 

 community against the present trustees, that it 

 had to guard against conflicts between the interest 



