556 Forestry Quarterly. 



ests are to be managed under working plans approved by the 

 ministry of commerce and industries. [It is difficult to see who 

 is on top!] Important is the clause giving the forest administra- 

 tion the right to secure from the agricultural and soil credit 

 banks and from savings banks loans or advances. 



The forest belonging to municipahties, provinces, public institu- 

 tions, corporations, associations, stock companies are to be man- 

 aged according to prescriptions by the forest administration. To 

 promote reforestation of devastated areas technical advice free of 

 charge and premiums of $4 to 8 per acre may be granted; and 

 waste lands so planted are to be exempted from taxation, for 15 

 years if in coppice, for 40 years if high forest. Small owners 

 in the mountain districts are to be assisted free of charge and 

 associations of them to be encouraged. 



For the first five years $6.6 million are set aside to carry out 

 this law; after which regular appropriations in the agricultural 

 budget are to be provided. 



Several other propositions regarding reorganization of the pro- 

 vincial conservation commissions, e. g. abolishment of the chestnut 

 limit, regulation of pastures in mountains, reorganization of for- 

 est school, institution of experiment stations, etc., do not seem 

 to have been enacted into law. 



Die neue Forstgesetzgebung Italiens. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir 

 Forstwesen. Jun, 1912. Pp. 196-198. 



Those interested in administrative organiza- 

 Forest tion will find many interesting suggestions 



Administration in a series of articles which have lately ap- 

 in peared in the Zeitschrift fiir Forst und 



Prussia. Jagdwesen regarding a proposed reform in 



the organization of the Prussian Forest 

 Service. The starting point is furnished by Forstrat Laspeyres 

 in the February number, and in each subsequent issue — April, 

 May, June, July — the discussion has been taken up by others. 

 The discussions are naturally mostly too local to make their brief- 

 ing in this journal desirable; but the illustrations of the principles 

 behind them may pay the reading by those specially interested in 

 such questions as the position of a forest service in the govern- 

 ment administration in general, and the relation of that service 

 to private forest owners ; whether within the service a collegial 



