154 FORESTRY 



3. By the third system of State control, the forests are 

 simply transferred to the care of the State forest officers. 

 The treatment then resembles in every way that accorded to 

 the Government forests. 



Of the German communal woods, nearly forty-five per 

 cent, are managed in this way. 



The action of the commoners is, of course, limited 

 most of all by this last-mentioned system, but it certainly 

 gives the best economic results, and is in every way advantage- 

 ous to the community when administered with due discretion. 

 The community pays a certain sum to the State in lieu of 

 management expenses, but, as a rule, this does not compensate 

 for the actual costs. The system is, on this account, the 

 most expensive to the Government a fact which has in 

 many parts militated against its more extended adoption. 



