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making remote stands accessible and profitable without undue in- 

 vestment on the part of the government. 



In Forest Management, Austria shows a splendid development 

 along original lines and a wide variety of adaptations to varying 

 conditions. Its Working Plan Organization is among the best in 

 Europe and the gigantic task of making a plan for each forest has 

 been pushed to completion. In its engineering features, Austrian 

 management probably stands pre-eminent in Europe. 



In Forest Technology, Austria offers little except the declining 

 industry of turpentining in the pineries South of Vienna. 



Perhaps Austria deserves a visit most of all because of the large 

 area privately owned most of which is under the best possible 

 technical control consistent with reasonable financial returns. 

 It is believed the management of these private forests is financially 

 more profitable than that of the State forests and therefore all 

 the more interesting to Americans. 



India. 



A trip across the Indian Ocean is expensive (about $225) and 

 to really see the best of the forestry in British India would mean 

 at least five months to and from the time one left Marseilles. To 

 make the trip comfortably would cost from $200 to $300 a month 

 unless a man put up with some hardship, a diflficult thing to do in 

 India where the caste lines are drawn so strictly ; there are only 

 certain forms of manual labor that a white man may perform. 

 For a month's tour in the mountains ("hills") one must have four 

 or five servants ; a man to bring wood, another to carry water, a 

 grass cutter, a cook, and, if one travels like an Englishman, a 

 personal "bearer" or valet. In addition, the necessary number 

 of packers figuring 80 tbs. to the man. While the pay is small 

 ($4 to $5 a month for a cook who boards himself on this pay) yet 

 when one realizes that it takes a man for each kind of work the 

 trip, all in all, becomes expensive. There is a great deal to learn 

 in the way of intensive fire protection, working plans and general 

 administration but it is believed the same amount of time spent 

 in a tour of the United States would be more profitable. For 

 further information the reader is referred to the forthcoming, 

 tropical number of "Forestry Quarterly".* 



*The next issue is expected to be mainly devoted to tropical forestry 



subjects. 



