494 Forestry Quarterly. 



perience can science thrive. It is interesting to note that this 

 antagonisin between theoretician and practitioner has for more 

 than a hundred years been discussed in forestry literature, Weber 

 quoting the expressions of early masters. Among these, Moser 

 in 1757 in his Principles of Forest Economy hits the nail on the 

 head: "The road to wisdom and judgment by way of personal 

 experience alone without systematic teaching is a rough and very 

 uncertain one : few travel it without stumbling and many fall. 

 Only with a good scientific knowledge as a basis will experience 

 make us wise. Without such basis it would be difficult to see what 

 to observe, how to differentiate between the accidental and the 

 essential. Moreover, this road is long!" A. B. R. 



Wissenschaft und Erfahrung. Allgemeine Forst-und Jagd-Zeitung, 

 April, 1914, pp. 1 17-126. 



The Bavarian Government has recently 



Forest set aside five areas on the Austrian frontier 



Parks containing 343 hectares, in order to retain 



in the original forest cover in its primeval 



Bavaria. condition. With the artificially pure stands 



which forest management generally finds 



most profitable covering larger and larger areas, it seems very 



desirable to retain a few examples of the old mixed stands. 



In these parks all cutting and other use will be forbidden. Like- 

 wise, hunting and fishing will not be permitted so that these parks 

 will also form game refuges. 



The Bavarian Government has already set aside for the same 

 purpose yy hectares of peat bog and some stands of old oaks. 



K. W. W. 



Natursclmtz in den bayerischcn Staatswaldungen. Forstwissenschaft- 

 liches Centralblatt, May, 1914, p. 291. 



Not long after the colony at Jamestown 

 First was founded the colonists began to manu- 



Saw-mill facture lumber in a crude way and a cargo 



in of "clap-boards" was exported from 



United States. Virginia in June, 1607. As early as 1625 



a saw-mill with upright saws run by water- 

 power was established near the present site of Richmond. 



St. Louis Lumberman. 



