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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



upon which passing allows him to en- chosen from among the most capable of 

 ter into active work as a Gepriifter the Forstmeisters, and their work keeps 

 Praktikant, beginning at a salary of them for the most part in the city. 

 $450.00 per year. He occupies this po- where they receive a salary of from 

 sition for two or three years, during $1,500.00 to $2,100.00 per year, 

 which time he does much the same work Now, to go back to the time of sep- 



as he did during the year be- 

 fore taking the examination. 

 He is then raised to the po- 

 sition of Assessor, beginning 

 at $750.00 per year, and with 

 a possible increase to as high 

 as $1,500.00. The position of 

 Assessor seems to have a va- 

 riety of duties. He may be an 

 Assessor in active work, and 

 perhaps be given complete 

 charge of a small area of a 

 thousand or more acres, or he 

 may be an office Assessor 

 where he is more in the nature 

 of an especially trained tech- 

 nical stenographer. 



The position of Forstmeis- 

 ter, which corresponds to that 

 of a Supervisor is the next 

 round on the ladder, of pro- 

 motion, and for many it is the 

 highest. It is seldom that a 

 man reaches this position Ije- 

 fore the age of 35 or 40 years ; 

 he starts in at a salary of 

 $1,200.00 and progresses to as 

 high as $1,800.00. A Forst- 

 meitser in Bavaria has control 

 of from 10,000 to 50,000 acres, 

 with a force of two or three 

 technical men, and four to ten 

 Forsters, depending upon the 

 size of the forest, besides the 

 wood choppers and ordinary 

 laborers who are seldom on 

 for more than six months at 

 a time. Naturally with a force 

 like this upon a comparatively 

 small area, they are able to 

 carry on a very intensive sys- 

 tem of Forestry, which at the present 

 time is quite out of the question in 

 America, especially in our big western 

 forests. 



About the Forstmeister there are the 

 men in the Ministerium. or Central r)f- 

 fice. In Bavaria the Ministerium is in 

 Munich, and each man is known as a 

 Forstund Regierungsrat. They are 



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Untrained Woods' Workers on one of the High Mountain 



Forests. 



THESE men work ONLY DURING.„THE SUMMER. 



aration and segregation at the end of 

 the fourth year in the Volksschule, the 

 young, future Forster follows along a 

 different course of study, and is capa- 

 ble of earning his living at a much ear- 

 lier age. To be sure, he has no hopes 

 of ever being a Forstund Regierungsrat 

 with a possible salary of $2,100.00 per 

 vear, or even a Forstmeister. The voun^: 



