THE STATE FORESTS OF SAXONY. l8l 



and planted in the next five years. If any serious diflference 

 of opinion should arise between them it is referred to a 

 commission appointed to decide such questions. By this system 

 of co-operation between the forest officer and the representatives 

 of the Forsteinrichtungsa}istalt, as it is in Saxony, a high degree 

 of efficiency and continuity of poUcy is obtained without the 

 danger of stereotyped regularity. As the objects of management 

 differ according to the variations in the price of different sizes 

 and kinds of timber, it is very desirable that the consequent 

 regulations should be easily controlled and put into force with- 

 out delay, and this is obviously more readily done by a central 

 staff, such as the officers of the Forstei?trichtungsansfalt, than if 

 every Forstmeister were allowed to interpret his instructions 

 according to his own ideas. 



Working-Plan. — The working-plan itself consists of two parts : 

 I. General Plan, II. Special Plan, both of which are kept 

 in manuscript. 



The contents of Part I. are roughly as follows : — 



1. Total area of woods and area under trees, and so on. 



2. Conditions of the locality, such as soil, situation, geological 



formation, etc. 



3. Description of compartments according to — 



{a) Method of management (silvicultural system). (/;) 

 Species, (r) Age. {d) Quality of locality, (e) Amount 

 of standing timber. (/) Situation. 



4. All results of former management. 



5. General directions for regulating the yield. 



6. General directions for cutting and planting. 



7. General outline of management, and other directions of a 



general kind, such as choice of species, methods of 

 planting, etc. 



In addition to this there are a number of tables showing — 

 (i) Normal and actual age-classes for the whole wood and 

 for each "Working Section." 



(2) Amount of each compartment on each of the five classes 



of soil. 



(3) Areas on different geological formations. 



(4) Normal and actual increments. 



(5) Area and length of rotation of each " Working Section." 



