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the last sixteen years shows marked extremes, a conservative 

 estimate placing the present values at$i6-$i7, double what they 

 were in 18S9. 



Hardivood Cut in 190^. American Lviinbernian, March 3, 1906, pp. 26d 42. 



In Prussia as in other German states 

 E7icourage7ne7it the returns from forest management and 



of the advantageous influences accruing 



Private Forestry from proper forest practices on the small- 

 er private holdings are not entirely satis- 

 factory. There are ten million acres of such lands that it is 

 estimated could be made to produce per year an additional value 

 of fifteen million dollars, or $1.50 per acre per year. 



Before the Silesian Foresters at their last meeting in July, 1905, 

 von Salisch reviews the measures which have been tried in 

 Prussia to make these laws useful, and the results of both those 

 provisions which have in view the improvement of private 

 forestry and those of other primary objects which, in their ad- 

 ministration, affect forest management on privates estates. One 

 of the worst of these latter is the stamp tax on the transfer of 

 standing forests which makes it of immediate advantage to first 

 sell the wood crop and afterward the land itself, rather than the 

 two together. 



The law providing for the establishment of stock companies 

 for managing forests has never been made widely enough known 

 to show its real worth. Every means should be taken to indi- 

 cate to investors its advantages, especially in the case of small 

 owners, whose forests could thus be consolidated. 



Great good is also done where the state foresters are given op- 

 portunity and encouraged to extend their influence beyond their 

 own reviers to the private forests of the neighborhood. Under 

 present conditions the men to whom this work would fall are 

 transferred so frequently from place to place that they have 

 barely time to become acquainted with their proper field, and 

 none at all to devote to conditions outside. 



But all these measures do not go far enough to bring the best 

 results. It is a better plan to have a bureau, or at least one 

 official, say of the Provincial Board of Agriculture, which seems 

 most available for this, devote his entire time to this work, and 

 not only take care of such requests for aid as come to him, but. 



