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Forestry in Hesse. 



[JUNE, 



State. 



Total 

 'yield 

 per 

 acre 

 per 



Cubic 

 feet. 



Wood to 2*8 in. 

 least diameter. 

 Cub. ft. per acre. 



Wood to 2*8 in. 

 diameter. 



Proportion of 

 useful timber 

 in 



Price per foot. 



Broad-leaf. 

 Per cent. 



Conifers. 

 Per cent. 



Wood to 2 '8 in. 

 diameter. 

 Per cent. 



Total felling. 

 Per cent. 



Timber. 



Firewood. 



For the whole. 

















d. 



d. 



d. 



Saxony 



93 "66 



78-5 



3 



97 



83 



70 



6-2 



1*7 



4'9 



Wiirttemberg... 



107-53* 



90*2 



26 



74 



63 



55 







5"i 



Baden... 



92-2 



76-4 



33 



67 



48 



43 



7-09 



2-99 



4-6 



Bavaria 



67'5 



58-3 







52 



45 



5-9 



2-14 



39 



Hesse 



87-1 



64'35 



59 



4i 



40 



30 



5-8 



2-54 



3*5 



* Includes an emergency felling of 5,250,000 cubic feet for the formation of 

 a reserve fund. The yield for ordinary years is 94 cubic feet per acre. 



The article contains also a note on the future timber supply 

 of the world. From data which have been published by Prof. 

 Sir W. Schlich in England, the conclusion is reached that 

 there is every indication of a serious shortage in the near 

 future, and that it behoves the forest authorities of Hesse 

 to conserve and increase in every way possible the supply 

 of a raw material which is so essential to modern industries. 



For the landowner who wishes to improve his woods, some 

 useful inferences may be drawn from this report. The out- 

 standing point is that it pays to spend money liberally on 

 the forest in certain directions. One of these ways is in 

 providing proper supervision. It is not uncommon in 

 England to find a couple of thousand acres under the 

 charge of a working forester, uncontrolled even, by a working 

 plan, and responsible to a land agent who in many cases 

 has no special knowledge of forestry beyond the most elemen- 

 tary first principles. In this connection the area under each, 

 academically trained officer in German forests (see table, p. 

 203) is of interest. The table takes no account of forest 

 guards, who are at least three times as numerous as the 

 superior officers, and have quite the equivalent in knowledge 

 that our working foresters possess. 



The term "intensive cultivation" as used above implies 

 not only close supervision of the existing forest, but care- 

 ful planting of each soil with the most suitable species. 

 In the shallow valleys of the Odinwald, for example, the 



