Forests in Prussia. 



area under wheat was 683,000 acres, and the returns give the 

 crop at 99,720 tons, against 187,376 tons in the previous year. 

 Estimates for the new season's crop indicate that there will be 

 about 300,000 tons available for exportation. The maize crop 

 for 1 900-0 r was a good one, being returned at 141,648 tons, 

 almost double that of the season before ; the area under culti- 

 vation was 448,450 acres. 



[Foreign Office Repoj-t, Annual Series No. 2847.] 



Forests in Prussia, 1900. 



According to the results of the Agricultural Inquiry of 1900, 

 there were in that year in Prussia 20,427,000 acres under woods 

 and forests, or 237 per cent, of the whole area of the country. 

 Forests cover relatively the greatest area in Hesse-Nassau, 

 Hohenzollern, and Brandenburg, where they amount to more 

 than a third of the total area. 



6,317,000 acres (or 30 per cent, of the total) were State forests ; 

 184,000 acres belonged to the Crown, 3,000 acres Crown joint 

 ownership, 2,726,000 acres to local authorities, 242,000 acres to 

 institutions, 584,000 acres to associations, and 10,377,000 acres, or 

 just over half the total, to private individuals. 



6,315,000 acres were leaf forest, and 14,112,000 acres were 

 conifers. The first consisted of 1,622,000 acres of coppice (oak 

 coppice, osier beds, and various stool shoots, with or without a 

 very few standards", 526,000 acres of coppice with standards 

 (stoolshoots with numerous standards , 615,000 acres of uneven- 

 aged high forest, and 3,553,000 acres of even-aged high forest. 

 The conifers comprised 1,744,000 acres of uneven -aged high 

 forest and 12,368,000 acres of high forest. Leaf forests are 

 commonest in Hesse-Xassau,Rhmeland, and Westphalia ; conifers 

 in Brandenburg and Silesia. 



The even-aged high forest comprised 890,000 acres of oaks, 

 401,000 acres of birch, alder, and aspen, 2,250,000 acres of beech 

 and other leaf trees, 10,256,000 acres of Scots pine, 17,000 acres of 

 larch, 1,994,000 acres of spruce, and 31,000 acres of silver fir, in 

 addition to some mixed woods. In the even-aged high forest 



