92 Forestry Quarterly. 



Hence, a reduction of rotations, to, say about ioo years, was indi- 

 cated with a consequent increase in felling budgets to net an 

 increase in yield of over $2,000,000; but as it would take 40 

 years to secure the age class distribution now existing in Wurt- 

 temberg a more rapid extraordinary utilization of the old stock 

 is indicated, say in 30 years, which should bring in the neighbor- 

 hood of $5,000,000. The legislator advocating these changes 

 asserts that a reduction of future forest rents was not to be ex- 

 pected from this over cutting, rather a rise was sure to follow ( ?). 

 He charges the forest administration with seeking a sustained 

 yield in reduction of felling budgets and preservation of old 

 stock instead of regeneration and preservation of soil vigor. 



Dr. Endres, now the leading forester at the University of 

 Munich, in a severe criticism of the Bavarian Forest Administra- 

 tion, agrees that the felling budget might be readily increased by 

 15 cubic feet per acre and year resulting in an increased yield of 

 2.5 million dollars. He arraigns the administration for having 

 slept for 30 years, for not keeping track of increment and yield 

 conditions, stating that in thinning material and over mature 

 rotting stands, annually a quarter million dollars worth of wood 

 is lost in Bavarian State forests. Partly, however, the fad of a 

 natural regeneration method forced in the last 20 years under 

 Gayer's schooling is the cause of the low yield, giving rise to enor- 

 mous losses in increment. "To secure a regeneration of a few 

 acres an expenditure of labor and time of many years is needed, 

 while the same result could be much better attained with a few 

 marks spent on planting." 



The result of the discussion has been the appointment of a com- 

 mission of three higher forest officials to investigate and report. 



The unnamed reviewer of these proceedings points out, that the 

 extraordinary cut proposed would necessarily lead to clearing, 

 since the time needed for natural regeneration would be lacking. 

 The extensive plantation thereby necessitated would be difficult to 

 make successfully ; that the difference in sites in the Wurttemberg 

 forest may account for difference in rotations. (He should have 

 also accentuated that the Wurttemberg area comprises only one- 

 eighth of the Bavarian and is, therefore, in much better position ; 

 it is also nearly everywhere close to market, while the old stands 

 in Bavaria are probably to the largest extent to be found in dis- 

 tant and hardly accessible mountain districts. — Rev.) 



