246 AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS IN AUSTRIA. 
The area under forests in Sweden is returned at 47,500,000 
acres, or about 46 per cent. of the area of 
Forests in land in Sweden. Of this area 18,427,243 
UTE acres, or about 39 per cent., belong either 
tothe State, to certain communities, or 
public institutions, and are called public forests, being 
placed under the supervision of a Bureau under _ the 
Royal Agricultural Department. The total is made up 
as follows: Crown parks, 9,354,404 acres ; quicksand planta- 
tions, 3,333 acres; undivided Crown iands, 2,390,562 acres; 
King’s domains, 483,177 acres ; forests assigned for mainten- 
ance of civil and ecclesiastical officers, 902,486 acres ; mine 
forests, 761,036 acres ; forests assigned to public institutions, 
129,667 acres ; common woods, 1,476,624 acres; city forests, 
104,780 acres; and forests of Crown lands and plantations, 
2,821,173 acres. The desire to increase the public forests has 
led the Swedish Riksdag to devote large sums of money 
annually to the purchase of land in order to establish new 
Crown parks. . 
[forestry in Sweden: United States Senate Refort No. 452, 1900.] 
According to returns collected concerning the distribution 
Rerieultaral of property in Austria, it appears that of 
_Holdings the 116,000 square miles which form the 
in Austria. 
total area of the country, some 82,000 
square miles, or 71 per cent., belong to small proprietors, 
and 34,000 to large land owners. In this classification a 
property is considered large if it measures more than 200. 
hectares (500 acres), and pays a direct tax of 100 florins. 
Small holdings are commonest along the Adriatic coast, 
where over go per cent. of the land fails into this category 
large estates appear to be more general in Bukowina, Salz- 
burg, and Galicia. 
