Statistics and Description. 23 
land area) or .63 acre per capita, which although largely 
under conservative management has long ago ceased to 
supply by its annual increment (about 53 cubic feet 
per acre) the needs of the population; the imports dur- 
ing the last 40 years, when Germany began to show ex- 
cess of imports over exports, having grown in volume 
at the average rate of 10% to now round 300 million 
cubic feet (80 million dollars) or 15% of the consump- 
tion. 
The larger part of Germany, two thirds of the terri- 
tory and population is controlled by modern Prussia, 
with a total forest area of 25 million acres; Bavaria 
comes next with one seventh of the land area and 6 
million acres of forest; the five larger states of Wiirtem- 
berg, Baden, Saxony, Mecklenburg and Hesse, occupying 
together another seventh of the territory with 5 million 
acres of forest. The balance of the area is divided 
among the other 19 states. 
Fifty per cent. of Germany roughly speaking, is plains 
country, the larger part in the northern and eastern ter- 
titory of Prussia, 25% is hill country, mostly in West 
and Middle Germany and 25% mountain country, the 
larger portion in the southern states. 
There are at best only five species of timber of high 
economic general importance, the (Scotch) pine which cov- 
ers large areas in the northern sandy plain and the lighter 
soils in the south; the (Norway) spruce and (Silver) fir 
which form forests in the southwestern and other moun- 
tain regions and represent, in mixture with broadleaf 
forest, a goodly proportion in the northeastern lowlands ; 
the (English) oak, of which botanically two species are 
recognized, and the beech being the most important 
