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a practical monopoly in the business of floating wood,
whereby they gain complete control of the woods. We
shall have to refer to this matter later.
Of some interest, too, is the work done for the
“boställen” or farms belonging to the Crown in the
provinces, about which we have already spoken. The
greater number of these, formerly occupied by officers
of the old Swedish army who were supported by these
lands, have since 1863 been subject to the
supervision of the Forest Administration. These farms are
about 800 in number with an area of 650,000 acres;
they comprise also about 390,000 acres of forest and
85,000 acres of marshes. Since 1896 about fifty
other State farms, comprising about 40,000 acres of
woods, have also been placed under the supervision of
this administration, and the case will soon be the
same with the glebe land of 700 rectories and vicarages,
comprising 482,000 acres of dry soil and 115,000
acres of marsh land. This supervision is in the interest
of the tenants, including the pastors. Up to date only
35,000 acres have been taken from these farms to be
reserved as Crown parks and forests.
On the government domains the big trees have
been counted. In 1860 it was estimated that there
were about nine million pines large enough to furnish
big logs; that is to say, trees 25 centimetres in
diameter at a height of 6 metres. In addition there
were five million trees large enough for railway-sleepers,
that is, trees 18 centimetres in diameter at a height
of 6 metres. Later on more exact measurements were
made, the result giving 26½ million first-class trees and
30 million second-class trees; and if we include the
woods where the trees are not numbered, but where
their bulk is approximately calculated, the total number
of measured trees in the two classes are estimated
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