Periodical Literature. 491 



POLITICS, EDUCATION AND LEGISLATION. 



New instructions for the preparatory 



Forestry Training training in Bavaria and Wurttemberg wil 



in be of especial interest to those readers 



Bavaria of the "Quarterly" and of the "Proceed- 



and ings" who are familiar with the require- 



Wiirtteniberg. ments in Prussiaf and Austria* and in our 



own countries of Canada and America. 



In Bavaria, after the four year course at the University of 

 Munich and passing of the theoretical examination at the close 

 thereof, the government takes on a certain number of candidates 

 for the administrative service — called Forstpraktikanten — who 

 must serve a 3 years' apprenticeship ; 19 months on National 

 Forests, 17 months in a District Office. The first year is spent on 

 a designated forest where the supervisor introduces the candidate 

 into all the various lines of work granting him opportunity to 

 actually carry on some of the work. Emphasis is laid on instruc- 

 tion in the technical and business procedure. Details to neighbor- 

 ing forests where work of special interest is in progress, are ar- 

 ranged. 



At the end of the first year, the apprenticeship is continued 

 on another forest, selected, this time, by the applicant himself. 

 The object of this second year is to broaden the training of the 

 first year ; the applicant may be assigned the regular work of an 

 Assessor (equivalent to our Forest Examiner) or of a Ranger. 



Next comes the office experience where the applicant is de- 

 tailed first of all to the Working Plan Section : from May to Octo- 

 ber in actual field work. Besides assisting in the making of work- 

 ing plans, he must independently prepare the plan for a certain 

 unit — that is, do all the work necessary thereto. He gets his 

 expenses for this work and a stipend of $1.20 a day! 



The following 11 months (November-September) are spent 

 in learning the District Office procedure. 



This ends the time of preparation; the final or state examina- 



*See "The Prussian Forest Service/' Forestry Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 

 I, pp. 42-50. 



fSee "A Glimpse of Austrian Forestry," T. S. Woolsey, Tr., Proceedings 

 of the Society of American Foresters, Vol. IX, No. i, pp. 7-37. 



*The working plan practice in Bavaria will be found described in "The 

 Theory and Practice of Working Plans," John Wiley & Sons, New York, 

 1913, pp. 147-159. 



