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iDoast several. Dr. Mocker prints with some annotations one of 

 the ordinances to forestmaster Goltamer in 1599 giving instruc- 

 tions as to the administration of several royal forests under his 

 charge, which gives a comprehensive insight into conditions at 

 that early age. Police duties in protecting forest and game, 

 logging and river driving and proper disposal of the harvest are of 

 course, the main subjects ; yet at least conservative lumbering 

 was then thought of : "We desire that tops and branches shall 

 not be left in the woods, but shall be worked up and, as oppor- 

 tunity offers, be sold to our advantage, and in case such cannot 

 be utilized or turned into cash on account of the distance from 

 market, the wood is to be left free to the people or, finally, to be 

 carried together and burnt, that the young wood may grow the 

 better and the game can exist therein." 



The same is to be done with dead trees, and the leaving of un- 

 desirable trees by the woodchoppers on account of being hard to 

 split, is to be discouraged ' ' that they may not in falling, kill the 

 saplings or impede young growth." Again and again care of 

 the ' 're-growth' ' is insisted upon. The salary of the forstmeister 

 was less than f 50, and not even the fishing in the waters for his 

 account was an additional emolument. 



Bausteine zur vaterldndischen Forstgeschichte. Ceniralblatt fiir das 

 gesammte Forstwesen . Jan., 1906, pp. 6-17. 



POLITICS AND LEGISLATION. 



At the meeting of the Deutsche Forstverein, 



Private Forestry Dr. Schwappach and Forstrat Graser dis- 



in cussed the means for promoting private 



Germany and Austria, ioresiry. The first speaker stated that in 



Germany forest management on small and 

 medium-sized forest properties at least was not of a high order, 

 and that since 1883 private ownership had decreased by 500,000 

 acres, that while 48 % of the total forest area is in private hands, 

 the yield from this area represented only 37 % of the total cut : a 

 part of the private forest must, therefore, be in poor condition. 

 Graser confirmed these deductions for South Germany and especial- 

 ly for Bavaria, where the fear of the results of this mismanage- 

 ment had already led to the following measures, which have been 

 followed in part by good results : 



