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be impossible to curtail the technical training in Europe in order to 

 give more training in business. Therefore he advocates : 



". . . The most satisfactory solution would be to employ a certain 

 number of business men to carry out the commercial work of the forest 

 department. . . . I would . . . advocate the appointment of per- 

 manent men not only to look after sales of timber and minor products, 

 but to endeavor to find new markets for those forest products not at 

 present exploited, to improve existing forest industries, and, where 

 possible, start new industries." 



T. S. W., Jr. 



The Indian Forester, March, 1916, pp. 103-107. 



Through the Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir 



War-time Use of Forstwesen we learn of the publication of a small 



Forests in pamphlet containing three addresses before the 



Germany Forstwirtschaftsrath in Berlin, 1916, by three 



well-known authors — Riebel, Wappes, and v. 



Mammen, referring to the influences of the war on the condition of 



forest use and management. 



In the line of utilization forest by-products have assumed a more 

 prominent role, so that here and there their development almost ex- 

 ceeds in importance the wood utilization. 



Pulpwood is increasingly used in new directions ; roots are dug to 

 increase fuel supply ; much small material, brush, finds a market and 

 permits silvicultural measures which formerly had to be omitted. Ber- 

 ries, mushrooms, and other forest fruits have become important and 

 are being increased ; many weeds, like nettle and thistle, can be used 

 for pig feeding ; heather is ground into fodder meal ; foliage and brush- 

 wood is dried and ground and used as fodder. Nettles are cultivated 

 for their fiber. For tanning materials not only oak and spruce bark, 

 but oak and spruce brush, is used ; the resin industry is revived ; ethyl 

 and methyl alcohol are made from wood waste. 



Even before the war wood prices had been soaring, so that the con- 

 dition of the wood market could be used as barometer of general eco- 

 nomic conditions, and they hav6 risen during the war still further. 

 Unfortunately no definite figures are given. 



Wald- und Forstwirtschaft iin Kriege. Schweizeriscbe Zeitschrift fiir Porst- 

 wesen, May-June, pp. 184-185. 



