THE FOREST RESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 37 



Table 15. — Ownership of forests of German Empire, 1900 — Continued. 



state. 



Crown 

 forests. 



State and 

 shared 

 forests. 



Com- 

 munal 

 forests. 



Insti- 

 tutional 

 forests. 



Associa- 

 tion 

 forests. 



Private 

 forests. 



Prussia. 



East Prussia 



West Prussia 



Brandenburg 



Pomerania 



Posen 



Silesia 



Saxony 



Schleswig-Holstein . 



Hanover 



Westphalia 



Hesse-Nassau 



Rhineland 



HohenzoUem 



Bavaria. 



Upper Bavaria. 

 Lower Bavaria. 



Pfalz 



Oherpfalz 



Oberfranken... 

 Mittelfranken.. 

 Unterfranken.. 

 Swabia 



Saxony 



Wurttemberg. 

 Baden 



Mecklenburg-Schwerin 



Saxe-Weimar 



Mecklenburg-Strelitz 



Oldenburg 



Brunswick. . .• 



Saxe-Meiaiagen 



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 



German Empire. 



Per cent. 

 0.9 



Per cent. 

 30.9 



3.3 



1.4 



.1 



1.4 



.4 



1.1 

 1.5 



27.7 

 3.2 



2.1 

 .5 



.1 



31.3 



5.7 



34.0 



62.7 



38.6 

 52.9 

 94.0 

 42.0 



Per cent. 

 13.3 



60.6 

 30.0 

 31.2 

 32.2 

 13.1 

 32.1 

 28.7 

 36.4 

 8.7 

 42.0 

 18.2 



33.8 



38.3 

 19.3 

 49.5 

 33.4 

 38.6 

 31.8 

 32.0 

 30.4 



45.2 

 31.2 

 16.9 

 2.1 

 42.0 

 47.5 

 66.0 

 37.7 

 73.5 

 42.4 

 17.3 

 58.3 

 41.2 

 .5 

 47.3 

 62.5 



71. 



Per cent. 

 1.2 



5.3 

 4.3 

 12.0 

 8.7 

 2.1 

 7.9 

 9.3 

 10.7 

 7.1 

 9.8 

 34.2 

 39.5 

 49.3 



12.5 



2.2 



2.4 

 4.6 

 14.0 

 36.7 

 16.9 



6.0 

 29.7 

 45.1 

 36.2 



9.6 

 15.3 



7.9 

 10.6 



1.5 

 23.4 



2.1 

 12.4 



2.1 

 12.8 

 11.2 

 21.5 



1.1 



3.3 



10. 



Per cent. 

 2.9 



1.1 

 1.4 

 1.0 

 1.2 



1.4 

 3.2 



.9 

 2.0 



.7 

 1.6 



1.4 

 1.2 



.4 

 2.2 

 1.5 

 1.7 

 2.6 

 4.3 



2.6 



2.4 



3.3 



.3 



5.0 



1.7 



.3 



.8 



.2 



.7 



2.6 



.6 



1.2 



1.0 



1.1 



.5 



2.4 



2.2 



.4 

 13.3 



59.3 

 34.6 



6.3 

 44.7 



1.8 



31.9 



16.1 



1.5 



Per cent. 

 50.8 



.1 

 2.4 



.2 

 14.1 

 9.5 

 6.6 

 3.1 

 2.2 



.2 



.1 



1.0 



.5 



3.6 



1.8 



.2 



1.2 



.3 



.9 



1.4 



16.3 



8.9 



1.4 



6.0 



.1 



10.7 

 2.1 

 1.8 



1.5 



2.2 



33.9 

 34.6 

 53.6 

 57.5 

 64.2 

 76.5 

 54.6 

 59.0 

 39.2 

 71.1 

 15.2 

 38.5 

 46.9 



50.9 



58.0 

 78.7 

 13.1 

 61.9 

 54.3 

 51.7 

 25.1 

 46.4 



-46.0 

 34.4 

 32.9 

 32.8 

 40.2 

 34.1 

 23.7 

 50.4 

 8.5 

 24.5 

 45.3 

 17.0 

 21.4 

 12.3 

 38.3 

 13.7 

 57.9 

 41.6 

 6.0 

 41.8 

 14.8 



100.0 

 33.9 

 20.1 



46.5 



The forest area has changed comparatively Httle since 1878. In 

 some parts of the Empire there has been a decrease, but in the country 

 as a whole there has been a steady increase. The following table 

 shows the changes mentioned: 



Increase, in acres, in forest area of German Empire. 





Total wooded 

 area. 



Increase. 



1878. .. 



34,682,315.0 

 34, 770, 995. 

 34,892,067.5 

 34, 989, 670. 





1883 



88,680.0 

 121,072.5 



1893 



1900. . 



Q7. (\09.. !\ 







Total 





307,355.0 







