unavoidable. If we take into account that the service in one place of the government or local foresters, is not long, then one cannot but agree that there may be often cases in which the making of estimates for a given place fa) Is to the duty of one who has had no means of getting acquainted with the conditions of the demand and sale. In making estimates on this system where it is not known in a given government by what they are guided in the adjoining governments, there arise in consequence unavoidable differences in the estimates, which, if not mutually contradictory, are not justified by the reality. To avoid this it is desirable that the local foresters, or forest revisors, in the course of the year, should supply to the Journal of Forestry three or four times a year information of the market prices of the forest materials in one or other of the markets. If such reports on the part of the foresters (there are 400 of them) be considered inconvenient, then from the revisors (of whom there are 100) it appears to us it may be practicable and sufficient, as with the help of the local foresters each forest revisor can collect information as to the prices in those markets which he has to visit in making the revision. This information should be supplied three to four times a year to the editor of the journal, and the supply and placing of these statements in the journal should be arranged in a formal manner. If there were such a collection of information as to market prices it would be possible to see the regular changes, and likewise the occasional changes in prices; and in making estimates, for one government to take into consideration the prices in other governments. The correctness of these prices could be timely considered and rectified. Such information would further afford a possibility to private forest proprietors to keep fixed prices, so that even between them there would be more unity in determining prices then exists at present; the taxators would find it possible to guide themselves by the varying prices of each locality for several years, and persons specially learning fore st economy would have an opportunity even at school to get acquainted with present prices of produce of forest economy in different localities, which might be of use in future to forest proprietors.
' The determination of the cost of preparing each assortment is possible, if a stated number of working days necessary for preparing such were fixed; a similar, so to say task allowance, should be taken as a general groundwork fjr all estimates, and then the cost of a working day can be determined by the official prices.
' On these foundations estimates are determined easily and correctly. Difficulties may occur only in such localities in the governments of Volinia, Minsk, Moghilev, Kostroma, and similar governments, as the market value of forest materials is less than the cost of working days required for felling and cartage. For instance, there are many places where a fathom of wood in the market is 3 roubles — whereas in felling it two working days were employed, and 10 horse working days for carting the same, and for 12 days is received 5 roubles or 23 kopecs per day; and whereas in the same locality a workman receives 25 to 30 kopecs per day, and a labourer with a horse 40 to 50 kopecs. In such cases it is impossible to fix the value of forest materials by the market prices. But such prices only prove that the greatest part of forest materials that appear in the market are acquired in the forest estates without the consent of the proprietors.
Remarks on the Wood Trade in the Government of Orel.
' The north-west district of the Orel government, Briansk, containing a large mass of forest as stated before, has besides, this important privilege that by the rivers Dwina and Bolva it is connected with the wooded parts of the governments of Kaluga and Smolensk. The railway in the course of construction near Briansk, and the river Dwina, connects Briansk with places where there is a scarcity of wood, by easy and cheap ways of communicatf THE DNIEPER.