82 INFORMATION REIvATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



tares, unless the experts' report shows that their land does not lend itself 

 to tree-growing. 



Persons who have previously asked to occupy the lands for rents, 

 without leases, on the terms of the decree of 8 May 1915, should within 

 ninety days, if their applications have been approved by the executive 

 power, declare that they are willing to conform to the provisions of the 

 present decree. After the lapse of ninety daj^s the lots of those of them 

 who have not made such a declaration will be held to be free and can be let 

 anew on terms fixed by the ministry. 



The general manager of lands and colonization should be particularlj^ 

 vigilant that no lands are awarded to these tenants which are capable of 

 being cultivated or forming a mixed farm by an application of articles I and 

 2 of the aforesaid agricultural law (i). 



The domain lanrls in question can, in fact, be let only as pastureland. 



A later decree, published in the Boleiin Oficial for 2 April 1917, ordered 

 an enc[uiry into the letting of domanial lands. 



ITALY. 



I. THE NEW MEASURES FOR THE PRESERVATION AND INCREASE OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL PROPERTY IN WOODS. ~ Gazzela UfiJale del Resno d' Italia, Rome, 

 no. 242, 13 October 1917. 



In our issues for July and August 1911 we explained the fundamental 

 principles of the new Italian forest legislation, which culminated in the law 

 of 2 June 19TO (no. 277) institiiting the State forest domain ; and in our 

 issues for September and October 1916 we examined the results obtained 

 by preserving and reafforesting the woodlands. It has now been established 

 by the decree of 4 October 1917 (no. 1065) that within a year of this date the 

 Higher Council of Forests together with the Provircial Forest Committees 

 must propose " the order and the mode of constituting " the forest domain 

 in the various provinces of the kingdom. It is further provided that the 

 foUowirg lands may be acquired and expropriated by the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture for incorporation in the State forest domain : a) the woodlands and 

 lands to be reafforested, even if cultivated, if they are within the perimeter 

 of the mountain basins to be systematized in execution of general and spe- 



(i) These articles are as follows : 



Art. I. — The executive power will cause the domanial lands to be inspected in order to 

 determine their conditions of irrigation , and [the possibility of utilizing them for agriculture, 

 stock-farming.the realization of wealth in trees or forage and other industries, or of establishing 

 villages and colonies on them. 



Art. 2. — As gradually such examination and topographical survey are undertaken, the 

 executive power will determine the mode of utilizing the various zones for the objects men- 

 tioned in the preceding article, districts suited to the foundation of villages and establishment 

 of stock-farming colonies being reserved. These districts will be suitably divided into lots, 

 their topography being taken into account. 



