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cubic feet of annual 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 in 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 
