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The government of Berlin issued special schedules for different parts 

 of game animals, which vary for the various cuts, from 12 cents up to 

 tlie maximum for stag and roe and from 7 cents up for boar meat. 



Allgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung, January, 1916, p. 19. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



An interesting account of the activities of the 

 The French Administration of Waters and Forests during 



Forest Service the war is given by a member of the administra- 

 iii the War tion who signs himself "X," in answer to various 



criticisms as to the use made of the forest per- 

 sonnel. The author points out that the part actually played by forests 

 and foresters was different from that which had been expected of them. 

 As a result of the war of 1870. it was unanimously believed that an- 

 other war would be short, that the forests would have no great strategic 

 value, and that foresters could best be used as a part of the army, with 

 the exception of the personnel necessary to prevent trespass in the for- 

 ests in the interior of the country. Consequently when the war broke 

 out most of the forest officers took their places in the various military 

 services, and it was with difficulty that a sufficient force was retained 

 to handle the necessary routine work. 



By the beginning of 191 5 trench warfare had replaced the war of 

 movement, and the needs of the army for wood gradually but steadily 

 increased. At first each of the various military organizations in the 

 zone occupied by the army secured its wood, without reference to any 

 other, from the most convenient stands, and without regard to their 

 future. Recognizing the danger to the forests of such a course, the 

 Minister of Agriculture succeeded in securing the creation of an Army 

 Forest Service (Service forestier d'Armee), which with certain modifi- 

 cations continued its activities throughout the war. This service was 

 composed entirely of foresters and was charged with the supervision 

 of all exploitations of the forests within the zone occupied by the army. 

 Back of the lines, in the interior of the country, there was also an 

 entire lack of co-ordination, each service securing wood to meet its needs 

 without reference to any other service. The engineers, for example, 

 were especially interested in softwoods, the artillery in hardwoods, the 

 railroads in ties, the quartermaster corps in fuel, and the aviation serv- 

 ice in woods of special importance for airplanes. The engineers had 

 gone so far as to divide France into eight districts, known as "Centres 

 des Bois," each with an organization for securing the necessary wood 



