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Government has fixed a maximum price, modified according to 

 quantities ordered; prohibition of exports has also been enacted 

 but appears to be a nugatory provision. 



Altogether the outlook on the problem of fertilizers is said not 

 to be discouraging. 



Beschaffung der Kunsilichen Dungemittelwahrend des Krieges. Zeitschrift 

 fur Forst- und Jagdwesen, March, 1915, pp. 205-210. 



Forstmeister Sieber, an active officer of 

 Miscellaneous infantry, speaks of the tasks of German 

 War forest administration during the war. 



Measures Germany imports about one third of the 



wood it uses. These imports ceased with 

 the war, but during the first few months of war there was a cor- 

 responding lessening in the actual amount of timber used. Now 

 the demand for timber is again rising and may necessitate an 

 overcut : i. e., a cut in excess of the calculated, sustained yield. 



Sieber urges an increased use of wood for fuel and mentions 

 that in his experience, heating by wood is no more expensive 

 than by burning coal in the stoves. He further urges the fullest 

 possible use of the grazing areas within the forests and of agri- 

 culture in growing crops in areas undergong regeneration. 



A. B. R. 



Die Aufgabe der Forstverwaltung wdhrend des Krieges. Allgemeine Forst- 

 und Jagd — Zeitung, January, 1915, p. 12. 



The most important problem before this 

 Upper Rhine association was the devising of ways and 

 Forestry means to minimize the damage done by the 



Meeting annual floods from the Rhine river. For 



three months during 1910 the bottom lands 

 around Baden were flooded. As a result extensive improvements 

 are planned. By straightening the channel, diking, and drain- 

 ing, it is planned to make it possible to use these rich bottom 

 lands every year without fear of floods; 23,500 acres are to be 

 reclaimed by the same methods that have proved so successful 

 in northern Germany and Holland. 



