THE BAVARIAN FORESTER 



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A Forest Nursery near Freising, Bavaria. 



BESIDES furnishing MOST OF THE MATERIAL NECESSARY FOR PLANTING THE FREISING FOREST, THIS NURSERY CONTAINS 

 A CONDISERABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN SPECIES, WHICH ARE BEING EXPERIMENTEDjWITH IN GERMANY. 



Forster continues in the Volksschule 

 for three years longer, completing his 

 course there. He is then ready to en- 

 ter the Waldbauschule where he spends 

 four years. In Bavaria there are five of 

 these schools, where the student learns 

 all that is considered necessary for a 

 German Forster. Naturally, in a land 

 where so much planting is done the 

 chief stress is laid upon the sylvicultural 

 side, and the preparation and care of 

 nurseries and nursery stock is taught 

 thoroughly. There are, of course, other 

 subjects taught besides Silviculture, 

 and this includes botany, mathematics, 

 and a certain amount of German neces- 

 sary in the preparation of reports. 

 Somewhere in this period he must serve 

 his two or three years in the army, the 

 length of time depending upon what 

 branch of th service he enters. Those 

 who receive the gymnasium training are 

 partially exempted from military serv- 

 ice, and are only required to serve one 

 year. 



At the end of his four years in the 

 Waldbauschule he is ready to take an 

 examination which upon passing allows 

 him to enter the State Forest Service 

 as a "Forstschutz-dienstasperantin." 

 This compares most nearly with a 

 guard upon an American forest, only 

 the German is willing to serve under 

 this title for three years at an uncer- 

 tain salary of little or nothing which 

 varies according to the work in hand. 

 After serving these three years there is 

 another examination waiting for him 

 which makes him eligible to serve as a 

 Forstassistent at $25.00 per month, and 

 with a possible increase to $37.50 per 

 month. This position corresponds to 

 that of our Assistant Ranger, and the 

 promotion to Forster or Ranger is based 

 upon merit. The Forster has the work 

 on a District much the same as a 

 Ranger, only with very much less re- 

 sponsibilitv, and on a much smaller 

 area, for on a forest of 20,000 to 30,000 

 acres there are usually at least four or 



