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present tendency is toward mixed stands, since the former prac- 

 tice of clear cutting and artificial regeneration of pure stands has 

 not always led to good results. The canton is the administrative 

 unit and for 52 per cent of the public forest definite working 

 plans have been prepared. Preliminiary plans are in force on 

 18 per cent and for the remaining 30 per cent of the public 

 forests no plans have yet been prepared. 



Educational instruction and research are centralized at the 

 forest academy of Zurich. Here the higher officers spend three 

 and a half years in study followed by one and one-half years of 

 field practice. For the rangers there is an eight weeks field course. 



The present forest legislation dates back to the floods of 1868, 

 although final action was not taken until 1876. In 1902 the law 

 was extended so as to apply to the low country as well as the 

 high mountains. A general inspector with four assistants has 

 general control of the local canton administration. Supervisors 

 receive from $600 to $800 per annum generally, although in some 

 cases the salaries run up to $1,700. There is no pension system. 



Since 1872, $2,400,000 has been spent on reforesting and $50,- 

 400,000 on stream control. Much remains to be done. 



At present the imports far exceed the exports, but better man- 

 agement will go a long way toward making the country self sus- 

 taining as far as timber is concerned. More roads are needed 

 and more intensive marketing should be practised. The forests 

 arc a very important part of the country's economics, useful alike 

 to the capitalist and laboring man as well as having large hygienic 

 and esthetic value. K. W. W. 



Die Forstlichen Verhdltnisse der Schweiz. Forstliches Centralblatt, Novem- 

 ber, 1914, pp. 594-599. 



Adding to the statements, briefed in F. 



Forests Q. XII, p. 119, the following data on the 



of forest of Alsace-Lorraine may be of inter- 



Alsace-Lorraine est. As regards ownership the acreage is 



divided into State forests, 38,000 acres; 



Communal forests, 489,000 acres; institutional forests, 6,000 



acres; private forests, 214,000 acres. 



The yield per acre per annum was highest on the communal 

 forests, exceeding the State forests by 11 cubic feet per acre. 

 The average yield of the latter was 62 cubic feet. The timber 



