878 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND LEGISLATION 



Prussian forest officers of the lower grades 



Greater (Forster) see better times for their class as a 



Democracy result of the revolution. They have been work- 



in Prjissian ing up to now under the code of instructions 



Forest Service drawn up in 1868 — a code which does not in any 



way fit present conditions, and in connection with 



which they had many grievances, concerning such matters as annual 



leave, hunting privileges, rights to firewood, damages by game to their 



gardens, etc. 



Just before the revolution a new set of instructions was drawn up 

 by the central office, without consulting the officers concerned, but had 

 not been issued. Because of the protests by the foresters' union, or 

 because of the revolution, or because of both, it has now been decided 

 to allow the foresters themselves to take part in formulating their code 

 of instructions. 



"Forestry, one of the fundamental factors through which the people, 

 enfeebled by the hard times of the lost World War, will in the course 

 of time become strong again, must have an intimate share in the rebirth 

 of the Empire. . . . No one who carefully and impartially studies 

 the events of the disastrous great war, which nevertheless it is to be 

 hoped will be productive of great good, can or will ever believe that 

 bureaucracy and the discipline of force can ever again in any way pre- 

 vail with the German people." W. N. S. 



Die Neue Forsterdienstanweisung in Preussen. Deutsche Forstzeitung 34: 1-2. 

 January 5, 1919. 



Forest covers 2.5 million hectares in Bavaria 

 Organization and is worth approximately 7.5 billion marks. 

 of a State forests comprise but 33.6 per cent of the 



Bavarian total area. Recognizing the importance of or- 



Forest-owners' ganizing private forestry so as to develop to the 

 Society utmost the productivity of the country, a society 



of private owners has been formed with the ob- 

 ject of organizing forest production on the entire area of privately 

 owned forest. The following measures are to be undertaken: (i) 

 Advocacy and support of the mutual interests of members in matters 

 of legislation and regulation; (2) formation of forest co-operatives, 

 with advice and assistance to members in all branches of forest prac- 

 tice and regulation; (3) assistance in the carrying out and revision of 



