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THE POKEST EESOUECES OP THE WOHLD. 



The Government has determined the area that may be converted 

 into forests. This potential forest area has been computed at 1,583,000 

 acres, or 4^ per cent of the present total forest. Of this, 1,362,500 

 acres are in rrussia alone, which would increase the present forest 

 area by 6.6 per cent. Prussia is doing a great deal in bringing under 

 forest much of its waste land. Thus from 1867 to 1892, 336,582 

 acres of waste land were bought at $16 per acre to plant to forest, and 

 from 1883 to 1902, 182,782 acres were brought under forest, or an 

 average of 9,140 acres per year. On October 1, 1903, the Prussian 

 forest administration possessed 91,202 acres' of waste land, which it 

 intended to plant with trees. 



COMPOSITION. 



Of the forests, 32^ per cent are covered with hard woods and 67J 

 per cent with conifers. The constant tendency is to increase the 

 latter at the expense of the former. 



The following figures show the progress made in this direction : 





Hard woods. 



Conifers. 



1883.. 



A cres. 

 12,006,450 

 11,668,025 



8, 862, 000 



Acres. 

 22, 764, 545 



1893 



23, 207, 800 



1900 



23, 627, 673 







Thus in 1883 the hard woods occupied 34^ per cent instead of 32 J 

 per cent, and the conifers 65^ per cent instead of the present Q7^ per 

 cent. The remainder of the forest, comprising 2,699,997 acres, is a 

 mixed composition of hard wood and conifers „ In Table 16 are given 

 detailed figures of the composition of the forest and the areas under 

 different methods of management. 



Table 16. — Percentage of forest composition, by states, in 



Germany. 







' 



Hard woods. 



States and provinces. 



■ Total. 



Coppice. 



Composite 

 forest. . 



Selection 

 forest. 



High 

 forest. 





Per cent. 

 30.9 



Per cent. 

 7.9 



Per cent. 

 2.6 



Per cent. 

 '3.0 



I 



^er cent. 

 11. A 







East Prussia 



20.3 

 11.1 

 7.3 

 25.6 

 12.5 

 12.6 

 27.9 

 64.5 

 36.2 

 67.2 

 65.9 

 73.5 

 41.0 



24.6 



3.1 

 2.0 

 1.2 

 3.2 

 2.1 

 5.1 

 3.9 

 6.8 

 3.6 



22.2 

 8.6 



34.3 

 1.3 



4.6 



1.3 

 .5 



11 



5.0 

 4.9 

 4.1 

 5.1 

 1.1 

 4.8 

 1.0 



7.6 



3.4 

 1.6 

 .6 

 4.4 

 2.0 

 1.3 

 4.1 



10.4 

 3.6 



10.2 

 1.4 

 3.5 

 3.4 



1.2 





12.5 





7.0 





5.3 



Pomerania 



15.6 



Posen 



6.9 



Silesia 



2.9 





14.9 



Schleswig-Holstein 



42.4 



Hanover 



24.9 



Westphalia 



29.7 





54.8 





30.9 





35.3 



Bavaria 



11.2 







Upper Bavaria 



7.5 

 16.5 



3.9 

 13.5 

 17.8 

 65.6 

 25.5 



2.0 

 1.3 

 .7 

 4.0 

 3.5 

 11.3 

 4.5 



1.2 

 1.1 

 .6 

 3.4 

 6.4 

 17.7 

 8.3 



4.3 

 14.1 

 2.6 

 6.1 

 7.9 

 36.6 

 12.7 





Lower Bavaria 





Oberpfalz 









Mittelfranken 





Unterfranken 





Swabia 





