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titled to. Presents might also be made to some adjoining com- 

 munity damaged by fire, with corresponding reductions of the 

 lots assigned to the home people — a truly communal spirit ! Na- 

 turally, since all are interested in the forest itself the owners are 

 inclined to keep it up in condition. Yet the rich associate may 

 build a splurgy house and get the material, while the poor, who 

 has no direct use for it may sell his assignment, as well as the 

 widow, who cannot cut it. Here, it would be better for the 

 forest and the associates to have at least part of the harvest put 

 up at auction or sale. Some peasant may have his farm located 

 high up the mountain above the common forest, and therefore 

 can economically draw only on his own woodlot above, and in 

 general his personal woodlot may suffice for his needs. A curious 

 objection to the sale proposition is that the Bauer would rather 

 have wood than money, being afraid that the latter is too easily 

 dissipated. Moreover, he is afraid of innovations and the ideas 

 of modern forestry are looked upon with doubt. 



Die Forstverwaltung waldarmer Berggemeinden. Schweizerische Zeit- 

 schrift fiir Forstwesen. May, 1912. Pp. 149-153. 



Italy, which has excelled in good forest 

 Forest Law legislation without execution, has in 1910 



of improved upon the law of 1877, which has 



Italy. not abated the damage by floods, landslides, 



and torrential action. The main feature of 

 the new legislation is the creation of an independent adminis- 

 tration of the State forests, which "by increase, by forbidding 

 their sale and by the good example of their rational management 

 are to promote the development of a national forest management 

 as well as trade in forest products." [With the present area of a 

 little over 100,000 acres and no money in the Treasury an un- 

 realizable wish!] 



The State property is to comprise: (a) the present State 

 forests declared inalienable; (b) the forests at present adminis- 

 tered by the Finance department; (c) the absolute forest soil be- 

 longing to the State; (d) newly acquired forest lands; (e) newly 

 reforested, or by special legislation ordered to be reforested by 

 the ministry of public works, which the ministry of agriculture 

 may deem desirable to be added to the State forests. These for- 



