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by species, quantities, and acreages, with indications of location and 

 availability for use. We should know the drain upon this resource by 

 species, quantity, quality, regions, and agencies. Requirements should 

 be ascertained by industries, classes of consumers, regions, species, 

 quantity, quahty, and location. We must know the current rate of 

 growth in volume by species, types, quality, and location of their prob- 

 able yields. More exact knowledge is needed of the amount of land 

 available, chiefly suitable for forest production in different regions. 



J. K., Jr. 



Clapp, Earle H. Lumber, 871:53-57, 1921. 



The forest administration has been handi- 

 Porestry capped since its inception (1836) by the lack of 



Personnel trained personnel. Forest protection has been in 



in Greece charge of local police officials, and local financial 



officers issue cutting permits and conduct sales. 

 The foresters (Oberforster) include provincial police officers, who are 

 now required to have a three months' training in forestry, and some 30 

 professional foresters (out of 105 in all), who have had a short train- 

 ing at various Austrian schools. The first school of forestry was 

 established in 1896 at Vytina and serves principally for training forest 

 guards. A school forest of 16,000 hectares (chiefly Ah'tes cephalonica) 

 serves as a field for practical training. Two other similar schools are 

 to be established — one in the Aleppo pine forest Chalandrion in Attica, 

 the other in the hardwood forest Agyia, in the Mt. Olympus region. 

 For training the administrative personnel, the State sends a certain 

 number of students each year to Austria. The law of 1917 provides 

 for a higher forest school at Athens, to give a complete four-year 

 course. The curriculum is described. The number of students, fixed 

 by the Minister of Agriculture, has so far been from 15 to 25 eacH 

 year. W. N. S. 



Sklawunos, C. G. Die Organization dcs Forstpersonals in Griechcnland und 

 dessen Ausbildung. Forstwiss. Centralbl., 42:443-450, 1920. 



Individual trees, and still more groups of trees, 

 Porests and are beneficial to grazing in mountainous regions 

 Grazing because they break the force of the winds, mod- 



erate extremes of temperature, increase the rela- 

 tive humidity of the air and the formation of dew, decrease evaporation, 

 and favor the propagation of the best forage plants. Trees are also 



