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essential respect satisfactory; but if they are lacking, the attempt 

 to practise it bad? to economic sacrific33 and evils which grow- 

 worse the longer one persists. 



Die wichtigsten forsUechnischen und forstpolitischen Verhdltnisse und Mass- 

 nahmen in der Schweiz mit Bezugnahme auf den gegenwdrtigen Stand der 

 Forstmrtschaft in Deutschland. Tharandter Forstliches Jahrbuch, 66 Band, 

 1915, pp. 159-94, 253-80, 329-49, Fortzetzung. 



In connection with the above critical dis- 

 Swiss cussion of Swiss forestry practices readers 



Forest will be glad to have the official publication, 



Conditions Die forstlichen Verhdltnisse der Schweiz, 



published by the Swiss forestry association 

 in 1914, covering the statistics, history, legislation, description, 

 organization and practices in detail on 34:2 pages. A brief re- 

 view may be found in the journal referred to below. 



AUgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung, July, 1915, pp. 171-6. 



A. S. (probably Schaeffer, formerly Chief 



Management of Management at Grenoble, and now Con- 



of a servator) gives an interesting management 



Forest review of a "forest in Alsace," which 



in covers ground captured by the Allies. The 



Alsace oak comprises the most important species, 



although the beech has an important place, 



especially for soil cover. When this forest was taken over by the 



Germans at the end of the Franco-Prussian war, it was chiefly 



coppice under standards and simple coppice. 



For a long time, apparently, the frequent clear cutting of cop- 

 pice lowered the soil quality and decreased the percentage of 

 valuable species. The ground ran wild to a certain extent and 

 the beech reserves suffered from bark scald. The average yield 

 for 30 years on an average rotation of 27 years was 6.44 cubic 

 metres per hectare. In addition to the sale of wood, the collec- 

 tion of dead wood was authorized in summer one day a week 

 and in winter two days a week. The open fields and the hunting 

 privileges were rented. Originally, the transformation to high 

 forest of the entire area was recommended and the Germans 

 continued this conversion, but, on account of demands of the local 

 commune, restricted the conversion to a quarter of the area. The 

 remainder was treated as coppice under standards, but the rota- 

 tion for the coppice was reduced from 27 to 24 years to permit 



