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costs are paid by it, including a shooting fee to forest officers. Leased 

 forests are let to the highest bidder, or at private sale in case of small 

 tracts used in conjunction with adjacent communal or private forests. 

 Forest officers may take part in the bidding. Leases run six years. 

 Lessees may issue written hunting permits, recorded with the forest 

 officer, to their guests. Lessees may arrange with the local forest 

 guards to manage their hunting. Leases may not be transferred or 

 sublet to third parties. The forest authorities may require a lessee to 

 restrict his shooting so as not to endanger the game supply, or to shoot 

 more in order that an overstocking of game may not endanger the 

 forest. The lessee has to look out for game protection himself. In 

 1917, net revenue per hectare was for State administered districts 

 0.37 marks, for those leased to forest officers, 0.22, and for those 

 leased to private individuals (usually the more desirable areas), 1.29 

 marks. With State management and with leases to forest officers the 

 authorities have better control over the amount of game, and can 

 supply meat at low prices to forest laborers. 



In Saxony, the forest supervisors (Revierver waiter) manage the 

 hunt for the State treasury, and get 40 per cent of the net proceeds. 

 Each Revier forms a "game working circle," divided into several hunt- 

 ing districts coincident with ranger districts. The amount of game to 

 be killed is determined each year in advance. Supervisors buy fodder 

 and salt for the game ; keep dogs and other hunting animals such as 

 ferrets, owls. etc. ; provide weapons, ammunition, and other contriv- 

 ances ; maintain shooting stands, screens, shades, and the like ; enter- 

 tain hunting guests ; for all of these they receive an allowance from 

 the treasury. Subordinate officers are paid a fee for shooting and for 

 skinning and dressing game killed by themselves or by outsiders in 

 their districts. The supervisor disposes of the more important kinds 

 of game for the benefit of the treasury at fixed prices (forest officers 

 may buy a moderate amount for their own use at fixed low rates), while 

 he gets free certain small game killed by himself or his subordinates, 

 and they get the small predatory, fur-bearing animals which they kill. 

 The average net receipts per hectare from the 146,000 hectares of 

 State forest were (1908-1917) 0.26 marks, and for 1917 were 0.32 

 marks. 



On two-thirds of the 197,000 hectares of Wiirttemburg State forests 

 the hunting is managed by forest officers ; the other third is leased. 

 Under State management, the Oberforster on each forest submit= a 

 shooting plan and financial budget at the beginning of each vear. He 



