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to maintain the supply in nearby communal and private forests. Leas- 

 ing is apt to prevent this, and will also reduce the communal revenues 

 from hunting leases by offering districts in competition with their 

 forests. State management is best for all interests, and should be 

 carried on, under the supervision of the forest supervisor, by himself 

 and subordinates, according to an annual plan approved by his superi- 

 ors. He should be allowed an addition to his salary to cover expense 

 of keeping dogs and providing equipment, and all receipts should go 

 to the treasury and all costs be paid from it. The guards should be 

 paid a. fee for every piece of game killed, and should get free the 

 horns, entrails and fat, for dressing the game. They should also be 

 allowed to buy game for their own use at prices paid by the dealers. 



W. N. S. 



Die Jagd in den Staatsforstcn der yrosscrcn deiilschcii Buiidcsstaatcii. Eberts. 

 Forstwiss. Centralbl. 41:41-49; 91-101; i:i2-148. 1919. 



Tbe lack of labor and means of transportation 



Coppice in resulting from the war have delayed the legular 



Southern cuttings in the evergreen oak coppice stands of 



France southern France by two, three, and even four 



years. This delay may be a blessing in disgi;ise 



since it affords an opportunity to lengthen the rotation with the object 



of producing larger sized material, which in the last 15 or 20 years has 



become increasingly valuable. Assuming that the Vesulian law (that 



the volume production varies as the square of the age) holds for trees 



between 20 and 30 years old, calculations indicate that the net revenue 



will be three or four times as great at 25 as at 20 years of age. The 



longer rotation is also preferable from a silvicultural point of view 



since the short rotations commonly in use have impoverished both 



soil and stands. S. T. D. 



Les taillis du midi et la guerre. De Brun, H. Revue des Eaux et Forets, 

 57:147-150. 1919. 



Although snowbreak is not as common in 

 Snowbreak Sweden as in Central Europe, it occurs from time 



and to time over considerable areas doing much dam- 



To/) Rot age in the spruce forests of Norrland. Two such 



devastations took place within the last decade, 

 namely, in li>10-ll and 1015-10, in regions where utilization is un- 

 profitable and all trees which only lost their tops had to l)c left standing. 

 The ouestion then arose bow rapidly these trees deteriorate. This 

 question was investigated by Torsten Lagerberg of the Swedi h Rx- 



