304 Sweden. 



jagmastare may be attained. The number of stu- 

 dents is limited to 30. The director of this school 

 is also general adviser in forestry matters. Besides 

 the director, six professors are employed. The course 

 at this school is two years of 11 full months. 



There are now a higher and a lower course, the 

 former requiring previous graduation from another 

 preparatory forest school, either the one at Omberg 

 (founded 1886), or that at Kloten (1900), where a 

 one-year course, mainly in practical work, is given. 



For the lower service there are not less than 6 

 schools in various parts of the country, each with one 

 teacher and assistants, managed under a chief of 

 range. In these, not only is tuition free but 10 pupils 

 receive also board and lodging; the course lasting 

 8 months. These schools prepare for State service, 

 as well as for managers of private forests. 



A forest experiment station was organized in 1903, 

 an independent institution in the Domain Bureau, 

 under the direct charge of a practitioner. Every 

 third year, a commission is to determine what work 

 is to be undertaken. The appropriation, which so 

 far is hardly $5,000 per annum, will not permit much 

 expansion. The first number of its publication, 

 Meddelanden fran Statens Skogsforsoksanstalt, was 

 issued in 1904, and work of a superior character has 

 been accomplished since then. 



That a forestry public exists in Sweden is attested 

 by a forest association with an organ Skogsvards 

 Foreningens Tidskrift, which was founded in 1902. 



