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The Rangers chief duties are : Protection, Silviculture and 

 Hunting. The first and last extend over the entire year. The 

 silvicultural work centers in spring, v^^hich is planting time ; and 

 fall which is logging time. 



Logging and planting* proceed in accordance with the general 

 provisions of the Working Planf for each Forest. Detailed plans 

 are drawn up annually for each planting and logging season by 

 the Ranger, are then compiled and revised by the Supervisor, and 

 are submitted to the Forstrath on one of his inspection trips — 

 the planting plan in late summer for the following spring, the 

 logging (cutting) plan soon after Christmas for the following 

 fall. When the Forstrath has approved the plans they are sent 

 to each Ranger concerned, for execution. 



In cutting the timber designated in the annual plan, the govern- 

 ment has it felled, (barked to expose any fungus injury) and 

 numbered (each piece bearing the current number, length and 

 diameter) ; for this work fixed prices are paid. The measuring 

 is done by the Ranger and the values entered on "Scale Sheets" 

 which the Ranger then submits to the supervisor who checks them 

 with the Ranger in the field — usually viewing each stem but 

 actually remeasuring only a certain per cent, as a check. 



The checked sheets are then copied in the office scale book 

 for the District concerned ; the original is returned to the Rringer. 

 From these books the annual "Notice of Sale" is prepared for the 

 annual "Holz Termin" (Timber Sale), inserted in the "Holz- 

 markt — the representative lumber journal — and sent to persons 

 interested. Sealed bids are the rule — only minor material is 

 auctioned oflF. Other things being equal, the timber is awarded 

 to the highest bidder, his name, the numbers, the price received, 

 etc., are entered in the "Holzverwertungs-Buch" (Timber Sale 

 Book), and the purchaser given a permit to remove the timber, 

 which becomes valid upon being countersigned by the Oberforster 

 and by the Fiscal Agent to whom payment is made. 



If the purchaser desires to have the wood which he has bought 

 shown him by the Ranger, he must apply to the Ranger concerned 

 within three days after the sale. At the end of three days the 

 government's responsibility for delivery of the product ceases. 



♦See following article: "Management of Pine in Prussia." 

 tSee: "The Theory and Practice of Working Plans", John Wiley & Sons, 

 New York. 



