120 Germany. 



for the first decade, without attempting more than 

 approximate equality. 



In 1898, new instructions were issued, which abandon 

 the allotment method and restrict the yield regulation 

 to designating felling areas for the first period. 



In Baden, where the forest organization began in 

 1836 upon the basis of volume allotment, a change 

 was made in 1849 to an area allotment, simplifying 

 to a greater extent than anywhere else the calcula- 

 tion of the yield ; finally, Heyer's method was adopted 

 entirely in 1869. 



It appears then that the schematic allotment 

 methods found the most general application in the 

 earlier time of the period, being favored probably on 

 account of their simplicity in application. The im- 

 provement in their present application over the 

 original methods as designed by Hartig and Cotta, 

 is that now they require no volume calculation for 

 any long future, but are satisfied with making a 

 sufficiently accurate calculation and provision for the 

 proper felling budget for the present. 



6. Forest Administration. 



About the middle of the 18th century the recog- 

 nition of the importance of forestry led to a sever- 

 ance of the forest and hunting interests, and it became 

 the practice to place the direction of the former into the 

 hands of some more or less competent man a state 

 forester usually under the fiscal branch or treasury 

 department of the general administration. Fully 

 organized forest administrations, in the modern sense, 

 however, could hardly be said to have existed before 



