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unavoidable. If we take into account that the service 

 in one place of the government or local foresters, is not 

 long, then one cannot but agree that there may be often 

 cases in which the making of estimates for a given place 

 faUs to the duty of one who has had no means of getting 

 acquainted with the conditions of the demand and sale. 

 In making estimates on this system where it is not known 

 in a given government by what they are guided in the 

 adjoining governments, there arise in consequence un- 

 avoidable differences in the estimates, which, if not 

 mutually contradictory, are not justified by the reality. 

 To avoid this it is desirable that the local foresters, or 

 forest revisors, in the course of the year, should supply to the 

 Journal of Forestry three or four times a year information 

 of the market prices of the forest materials in one or 

 other of the markets. If such reports on the part of 

 the foresters (there are 400 of them) be considered 

 inconvenient, then from the revisors (of whom there are 

 100) it appears to us it may be practicable and sufficient, 

 as with the help of the local foresters each forest revisor can 

 collect information as to the prices in those markets 

 which he has to visit in making the revision. This infor- 

 mation should be supplied three to four times a year to the 

 editor of the journal, and the supply and placing of these 

 statements in the journal should be arranged in a formal 

 manner. If there were such a collection of information 

 as to market prices it would be possible to see the regular 

 changes, and likewise the occasional changes in prices ; 

 and in making estimates, for one government to take into 

 consideration the prices in other governments. The 

 correctness of these prices could be timely considered and 

 rectified. Such information would further afford a 

 possibility to private forest proprietors to keep fixed 

 prices, so that even between them there would be more 

 unity in determining prices then exists at present ; the 

 taxators would find it possible to guide themselves 

 by the varying prices of each locality for several years, 

 and persons specially learning forest economy would have 



