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that of Prussian forests. Since the chief wood is spruce, which 
yields more saw timber than the average of trees making up the 
Prussian forests, the increase in the percentage of saw timber in 
Saxony naturally exceeds the increase in Prussia. It increased 
from 26 per cent, in 1830 to 66 per cent, in 1904. The net yearly 
revenue is $5.30 per acre. The yearly expense is $3 per acre. 
These figures are in striking contrast with the corresponding 
one for the United States. We spent on our National Forests last 
year 93/10 mills per acre, and our net revenue from them was 
less than 7/8 mill per acre. 
The rise in prices, felt everywhere, accounts only in part for the 
increased financial returns from forestry in these two States. For 
while the prices have not quite trebled, the revenue has been multi- 
plied tenfold. 
Other German States, smaller, with better kinds of timber and 
better market facilities, secure even higher returns. The forests 
of Wurttemberg yield a net annual revenue of nearly $6 per acre, 
and those of several smaller administrations do even better. 
A number of the private forests of Germany are managed with 
great success. As a result of a canvass of 15,600,000 acres of 
State, municipal and private forests, it was found that the average 
net revenue per acre, from good, bad, and indifferent land, was 
$2.40 a year. 
What, then, has forestry done in Germany ? Starting with for- 
ests which were in as bad shape as many of our own which have 
been recklessly cut over, it raised the average yield of wood per 
acre from 20 cubic feet in 1830 to 65 cubic feet in 1904. During 
the same period of time it trebled the proportion of saw timber 
got from the average cut, which means, in other words, that 
through the practice of forestry the timberlands of Germany are 
of three times better quality today than when no system was used. 
And in fifty-four years it increased the money returns from an 
average acre of forest sevenfold. 
Yet today the forests are in better condition than ever before, 
and under the present system of management it is possible for the 
German foresters to say with absolute certainty that the high 
yield and large returns which the forests now give will be con- 
tinued indefinitely into the future. 
To be continued. 
