252 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
connected with the higher branches of forest administration, as the 
preparation of working plans, valuations, ete. The remaining 
period of his training is passed under different Oberforsters in the 
same sort of work, and he is then, seven years after commencing 
his forestal training, allowed to stand for the State examination, 
after passing which he becomes ‘ Forest assessor,” and practically 
enters the forest service as a salaried officer. During his last two 
years probation he must keep a diary of his daily work and 
occupation, noting the division which he was in, and also any 
special incident that came under his observation. This diary must 
be inspected and signed by the Oberforster before he leaves his 
district, and must be produced at the final examination. 
In addition to the above ordinary course of entering the forest 
service are two others connected with service in the Feld and 
Foot-Jager Corps. The former course involves a seven years’ 
service in the Feld-Jager Corps after the yearly apprenticeship in 
the forest, the corps being stationed in the town of Eberswalde, so 
that the necessary facilities for receiving the instruction at the 
academy are present. The members are provided with free quarters 
and firing, their other necessities they must furnish themselves, the 
ability to do which they must furnish proof of before their admis- 
sion to the corps. In the case of the Foot-Jager the military 
service is shorter, and the conditions somewhat different, but in 
both cases the service, or part of it, counts as student time in 
qualifying for the examinations, the latter being the same in all 
three cases. 
Such is a brief outline of the training to which the aspirant for 
forest service in Prussia is subjected, and it is rather surprising 
that so many are found willing to pass through it, in consideration 
of the comparatively small remuneration given at the end of it. 
The advantages are, however, greater than would appear at first 
sight. In the first place, the life of the forest officer is not one of 
very severe work, either physically or mentally, and has many 
attractions for a lover of sport. Everything in connection with 
the administrative duties are all cut and dried, it may almost be 
said, years beforehand, while the formule for the necessary revisions 
and alterations in the working plans, etc., have been well instilled 
into him during his long training. He has the results of centuries 
of observation and research at his finger ends, and scarcely a con- 
tingency can arise but what he has already been warned of its 
liability to occur. When he takes charge of a division he finds 
