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VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
the parish or given as a donation by private persons, the wood-production is
assigned to the benefit of the holder and to the parish, according to the special
resolution of the Government and the wording of the donation-letter.
The area of forests belonging to Public institutions, such as churches,
academies, hospitals, etc., amounts to 43,347 hectares.
The Crown farm and settlement forests. Their return goes to the tenant.
The total area amounts to 1,132,245 hectares.
B) The total area of the Forests of the hundreds (the commons)
amounts to about 100,000 hectares. Shareholders in the forests of a
hundred are the farmers in the hundred, according to the size of their
farms. But the forests of the hundreds are not to be divided but
must be kept undiminished and treated according to such economic
principles founded on a scientific basis, as purpose the future existence
and highest return of the forest. If a common of a hundred has not
been placed under the administration and care of the Forest-service,
nevertheless the State foresters shall control that the economic
principle decreed for the common of the hundred be followed. The return
of the common of a hundred is in the first place used for meeting the
expenses of its guarding and management, secondly for building purposes
of the hundred, and lastly for distribution among the shareholders.
C) The Parish forests amount altogether to about 540,000
hectares. The parish forests (the parish commons) in the Län of Norrbotten
stand under the care and management of the forest service. They
are constituted by the land-owners of the parish having decided at
»the Delimitation» (see p. 201) to reserve part of their forest grant to
forest in common. The area of these forests amounts to 279,820 hectares.
The parish forests in the Läns of Gefleborg and Kopparberg have arisen
by a bigger area of wood granted in certain parishes at the »General
re-parceling of land» (see p. 512) under the condition that forests in
common should be formed thereof. The area of these forests amounts
to 257,053 hectares. The valid prescriptions as to their attention and
care only in some measure limit the shareholders’ free power of disposal,
wherefore the forests may easily have been too hardly used. Out of the
returns of the forests considerable Funds have nevertheless been formed,
which are used for the wants of the parishes. (See the chapter on the
finances of the communities, p. 253).
Administration of the public forests.
Most of the public forests, even those which do not belong to the
State, are under the administration or control of the Forest service,
which besides administers the State’s landed properties. For nearly
all of these forests the rule holds good that the economy should be
enduring. These two factors, professional information and the custom
of continuity, account for the general excellent management conferred
especially on that group of public forests which are under the direct
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