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proximate 2.5 cents per cubic foot in the average, and a proportion 

 of different assortments in the cut, which for lack of more definite 

 information we may assume to be 10, 20, 30, 40 per cent respec- 

 tively for the four grades. 



In this way we come to an average stimipage value of $14 per 

 M feet for pine and about $21 for spruce; prices which in some 

 sections we have reached and exceeded in our country, at least 

 for White pine. It is interesting to note that all grades of spruce 

 except the largest bring higher prices than pine, the competition 

 for ptdpwood of the smaller sizes being probably the explanation. 



Silva, March, 1914. 



POLITICS, EDUCATION AND LEGISLATION 



In a longer article, based upon official 



Early sources. Dr. Diekel, in great detail, gives 



Forestry insight into the beginnings of forestry edu- 



Education cation in Prussia. It is of interest not only 



historically in showing how crude even 



organization still was in the middle of the eighteenth centiuy, 



but also in the similarity to our own development in the United 



States. The first specifically and separate forest department was 



organized as a branch of the General Direction in 1770. 



The first educational venture was a detail by the Prussian 

 Government of a single man in 1767 to Hans Dietrich von Zan- 

 thier, who was the manager of the forests of the Count von Stolberg- 

 Wemigerode in the Harz Mountains, and had evidently secured a 

 wide reputation for his successful silviculture. This detail of the 

 Referendar Koch curiously enough was only for a few weeks, but 

 on Zanthier's representation that a half year was necessary to 

 secure a thorough knowledge of forestry, his detail was extended 

 to nine months and finally to a year. Two other such details were 

 made, apparently without any payment to v. Zanthier. The result 

 of his work, however, was so satisfactory and became so well 

 known, that Zanthier's became a "celebrated forest school, from 

 which issued many, later grown great foresters, of whom Prussia 

 could boast." 



We find the counterpart of this movement in Dr. Schenck's 

 master-school at Biltmore. 



About the same time another phase in educational lines de- 



