Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE CULTIVATED FORESTS OF EUROPE. 185 almost half the annual yield consists of thinnings. He says : With an averagestand of 2,800 cubic feet per acre, the annual yield of wood, almost half of whichis from thinnings alone, reached last year 377,023 cubic feet, an amount which maybe taken as slightly above the average.* None of this material from thinningsgoes to waste. In short, all the products of the forests of southern Europe findready utilization. Tl>e Aari^ef. This thorough utilization of the forest product is due to the good market, dis-tribution of population, low wages and good roads. The effect of the market iseverywhere apparent in the great economy of wood. In the hotels heat is a luxuryfor which guests are often required to pay an extra charge. In the wayside inna bucket of hot ashes placed in the center of the room is often the only fireplacearound which the smokers can hold their cheerful converse, while at night the bedis made ready for its occupant by a pan of coals

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