56 Germany. 



munal forests was entirely undertaken by the govern- 

 ment. 



In Prussia, by the Order of 1754, the foresters of 

 the State were charged with the supervision of the 

 communal forests, in which they were to designate 

 the trees to be felled and the cultures to be executed; 

 but as there was no pay connected with this ad- 

 ditional duty and the districts were too large, the 

 execution of this supervision was but indifferently 

 performed. 



In 1749, a special city forest order placed the city 

 forests in Prussia under the provincial governments, 

 requiring for their management the employment of a 

 forester and the inspection of his work by the pro- 

 vincial forestmaster. 



5. Personnel. 



Although all this supervision was probably more 

 or less lax, the possibility of more general and incisive 

 influence was increasing because the personnel to 

 whom such supervision could be intrusted was at last 

 coming into existence. 



The men in whose hands at the beginning of the 

 18th century lay the task of developing and executing 

 forest policies and of developing forestry practice 

 came from two very different classes. The work in 

 the woods fell naturally to the share of the huntsmen 

 and forest guards, who by their practical life in the 

 woods had secured some wood lore and developed 

 some technical detail upon empiric basis. These so- 

 called holzgerechte Jaeger (woodcrafty hunters) pre- 

 pared for their duties by placing themselves under 



