THE FOEEST KESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 



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GERMANY. 



FOREST AREA. 



According to the latest figures obtained by the census of 1895, the 

 total area now under forest in Germany is 34,989,675 acres. This 

 forms 25.89 per cent of the total land area. The forest area is 0.62 

 acre per capita. The distribution of the forests in the different States 

 in the German Empire is given in the following table: 



Table 14. — Area of forests of German Empire, 1900. 



states. 



Total area 

 of forests. 



Land area 

 under 

 forest. 



Area per 

 capita. 



Prussia. 



East Prussia....... 



AVest Prussia 



Brandenburg 



Pomerania 



Posen.. 



Silesia 



Saxony 



Schleswig-Holstein . 



Hanover 



Westphalia 



Hesse-Nassau 



Rhineland 



Hohenzollern 



Bavaria. 



Upper Bavaria. 

 Lower Bavaria. 



Pfalz 



Oberpfalz 



Oberfranken 



Mittelfranken... 

 Unterfranken... 

 Swabia 



Saxony 



Wurttemberg 



Baden 



Hesse 



Mecklenburg-Schwerin 



Saxe-Weimar 



Mecklenburg-Strelitz 



Oldenburg 



Brunswick 



Saxe-Meinigen 



Saxe-Altenburg 



Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 



Anhalt 



Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 



Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 



Waldeck 



Reuss (elder line) 



Reuss (younger line) 



Schaumburg-Lippe 



Lippe 



Lubeck 



Bremen 



Hamburg 



Alsace-Lorraine 



Acres. 

 20,675,335.0 



Per cent. 

 23.7 



Acres. 

 0.60 



611,187.5 

 386, 620. 

 329, 170. 

 547,937.5 

 432, 135. 

 904,732.5 

 339,087.5 

 315,782.5 

 651,495.0 

 415,700.0 

 556, 665. 

 087,475.0 

 97, 347. 5 



166,385.0 



1,255,190.0 

 841,857.5 

 578,367.5 

 895,660.0 

 607,395.0 

 630, 275. 

 781,317.5 

 576,322.5 



961,350.0 



501,037.5 



419, 487. 5 



600, 022. 5 



591,850.0 



232, 720. 



155,562.5 



170,852.5 



273,682.5 



259,647.5 



89,757.5 



148, 940. 



144, 485. 



66,777.5 



103, 325. 



106,987.5 



28, 132. 5 



77,995.0 



17, 247. 5' 



83, 720. 



10,207.5 



120.0 



4, 467. 5 



099,580.0 



17.4 

 ■21.7 

 33.4 

 20.6 

 19.8 

 28.8 

 21.2 

 6.7 

 17.2 

 28.0 

 39.7 

 30.9 

 34.1 



32.5 



30.0 

 31.3 

 39.0 

 37.1 

 34.7 

 33.3 

 37.2 

 23.5 



25.8 

 30.8 

 37.7 

 31.2 

 18.0 

 25.8 

 21.2 

 10.6 

 30.1 

 42.1 

 27.1 

 30.1 

 25.1 

 31.0 

 43.9 

 38.2 

 35.6 

 37.8 

 20.3 

 27.6 

 13.7 

 .2 

 4.3 

 30.3 



LOS 

 .95 

 .75 

 .62 

 .48 



..22 

 .62 

 .45 

 .82 

 .35 



1.45 



1.00 



.95 

 1.25 



.70 

 1.62 

 1.00 



.78 

 1.20 



.22 

 .70 

 .75 

 .52 

 .98 

 .65 



L52 

 .42 

 .60 



L02 

 .45 

 .65 

 .45 



.65 



German Empire 34, 989, 675. 



25.89 



