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vate forestry, education and in other directions of public policy, 

 which just about uses up the receipts of the State forests. 



These latter expenditures divide themselves up into support of 

 three primary forest schools $6,630, the courses, all practical, 

 running for one year, most of the 96 (out of 256 applicants) at- 

 tending the schools becoming private foresters. Some $2,740 

 go to the support of a provincial forest school of Hedemart, the 

 most densely wooded province in Norway. This school at Even- 

 stad is not much different from the previously mentioned schools, 

 the course lasting also a year, with 20 students, who secure a 

 State subsidy. 



The Norwegian Forestry Association secures $56,500, besides 

 the salary of a technical forester of $730. This Association 

 consists of 1,700 members and 7,500 adherents, subdivided into 

 i8 provincial sections. The State subvention is distributed by the 

 Association to would-be planters as it thinks proper, but $5 to 6 

 per acre is the obligatory contribution to plantings in the pro- 

 tection forests. This work is supervised by the technical ad- 

 viser and the provincial forest officers. Another peculiar sub- 

 vention by the State of $2,240 is given to the provinces, who fix 

 a minimum diameter for exploitation of protective forests, this 

 sum representing half the cost of putting this regulation into 

 effect. 



Indemnity for damage done by beavers, which are protected 

 by regulations for their chase, are provided by the State with 

 $560; and finally a subvention of $12,140 for travel and salaries of 

 provincial foresters. 



After Tidskrift for Skogbrug. Revue des Eaux et Forets. July, 1912. 

 Pp. 397-402. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A commission appointed to consider the 



Market matter warns graduates of the higher grade 



for forest schools that there is little hope of 



Foresters. obtaining a livehhood by securing positions 



with private or communal owners of forest 



lands. While there is a demand for guards and foresters of the 



lower grade, technically trained men can only look forward to 



