284 Forestry Quarterly. 



nearly 10 per cent. But it seems that from year to year the pro- 

 portion between the markets is not maintained ; for instance in 

 1909 prices at Mannheim ranged from 26 to 29 cents, while on the 

 Middle or Lower Rhine they ranged from 296 to 33.7 cents. 



Das Wirtschaftsjahr 1912. Centralblatt fiir das gesammte Forstwesen. 

 March, 1913. P. 144. 



During the years 191 1 and 12 the acquisi- 



Waste tion of waste lands and their recuperation 



Land in Prussia has progressed satisfactorily. 



Planting On Octol^er i, 1910, there were in posses- 



in sion of the government around 48,000 acres 



Prussia. of waste lands. To this were added by 



purchase or exchange in the two years 



19,000 acres, and there were planted around 30,000 acres, so that 



on October i, 191 2, there remained on hand to be planted 37,000 



acres. Repair planting had to be done on 16,000 acres during 



these two years. 



Zeitschrift fiir Forst- u. Jagdwesen. February, 1913. Pp. 134-5. 



A Socialist leader in the Prussian legisla- 



^ ture has recently attacked the administra- 



Game . . , . -^ . ., . , 



tion of huntmg privileges in the state 



p . forests. These are now the prerogatives 



of the forestry officials and of wealthy land- 

 owners. In the communal forests, on the 

 other hand, an annual rental of 10 cents to $1.20 per acre is 

 obtained by a leasing system. Were the same procedure adopted 

 on the state forests there would be a considerable increase in the 

 returns from the state forests. 



Another argument for depriving the foresters and landowners 

 of their ancient prerogative is that under the present system too 

 much attention is paid to game. If the foresters were to con- 

 sider the game like the other resources of the forest and not as a 

 personal prerogative, there would be no danger of their thinking 

 more highly of the young deer than of the young trees, a charge 

 which has been preferred. 



Die Jagd in den pretissischen Staats forsten. Forstwissenschaftliches 

 Centralblatt. Nov., 1912. Pp. 505-508. 



