CHAPTER IV. 



SCHOOLS OF FORESTRY. 



A METHOD of exploitation so complicate as that which has 

 been described can only be administered by educated men, 

 specially instructed and trained for the work. 



The administration of the Crown forests in Poland is 

 subject to the Imperial Minister of Finance. In a com- 

 munication I had from Count Ostenstacken, personal 

 attache to Field-Marshal Berg, Viceroy of Poland, I was 

 informed that the private proprietors of forests within the 

 kingdom act very recklessly in disposing of these and in 

 deforesting the country. 



Their doing so renders it the more desirable that the 

 Crown forests should be conserved and properly managed, 

 if not also extended. And, in view of this, provision has 

 been made for the education, instruction, and training of 

 candidates for employment on the forest service. 



Besides the Imperial Schools of Forestry in the vicinity 

 of St. Petersburg, and in the vicinity of Moscow, and 

 others in Eastern and Central Russia, in Western Russia 

 a Chair of Forestry has been established in the Institutes 

 of Kalazin, Vologda, Lipetsk, in Marymont in Poland, and 

 at Mittau. But the most important arrangements for 

 the study of forest science and forest economy by forest 

 officials in Poland are at Novoi Alexandria, or New 

 Alexandria. 



Of these arrangements the following details are given 

 from the Ustaff, or Code of Regulations for the Institute of 

 Agriculture and Forestry at that place, approved by the 

 Emperor 8th June, O.S., 1869, and still in force, 



' The institute is ranked as a college of the first class, 

 with two sections one devoted to the study of rural 



