388 Korea. 



Education in forestry has lately run riot in Japan as 

 it has in the United States. Since the first school, or- 

 ganized in 1882, not less than 63 institutions have seen 

 the need of offering the opportunity to become ac- 

 quainted with that subject. Here, however, different 

 grades are frankly acknowledged. There are three col- 

 legiate institutions whose diploma admits to the higher 

 service, five are of secondary grade, another five give 

 special courses, and the rest treat the subject merely as a 

 subsidiary of a practical education including agriculture, 

 stock-farming and fishery. A ranger school, which was 

 instituted under Matsuno's guidance, controlled by the 

 forestry bureau, came to an end during the Russian jvar 

 for lack of funds, but has probably been revived again. 



In conclusion, we may say that Japan has done won- 

 ders in reorganizing its forestry system in a shprt time, 

 but, according to one competent observer, while all the 

 Japanese care for detail and love for orderliness is ap- 

 parent in the office, not all that is found on paper is to 

 be found as yet in the woods, and that for similar rea- 

 sons as have been indicated for Russia, many things hap- 

 pen in the woods that are not known in the office. 



KOREA. 



The latest move in forest reform in this part of the 

 world, as a result of Japanese influence, is to be re- 

 corded from Korea. The forest area of Korea comprises 

 only about 2,500,000 acres, out of an area of nearly 60 

 million acres of very mountainous country. A conces- 

 sion for the exploitation of the northern forests to a 

 Russian, which included the re-planting with "exotic" 



