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The Federal forest law, of which Prof. Landolt 

 writes, is binding over nearly two-thirds of all 

 Switzerland. Its chief provisions are the following: 



The supervision of the Confederation is exercised, 

 within the forest area over which it has special juris- 

 diction, upon all protection forests, and furthermore 

 upon all State, communal and corporation wood 

 lands, even when they do not fall under that head. 



The cantons must appoint and pay the number of 

 suitably educated foresters necessary for the execu- 

 tion and fulfillment of the forest law. 



All forests which fall under Federal supervision 

 must be demarcated on the ground within five years 

 from the passage of the law. 



The burdening of the wood lands with new pre- 

 scriptive rights of certain kinds is forbidden. 



The State, communal and corporation forests are 

 to be surveyed, their management regulated, and 

 working plans for them must be drawn up. 



The federal machinery for the enforcement of this 

 law is contained in the office of the Inspector-General 

 of Forests, whose sphere of action extends over all 

 the wood lands in question. Each canton has its 

 own forest organization,. The Federal Forest School, 

 of which Prof. Landolt was founder, and in which 

 he still teaches the forest sciences, remains in Zurich. 



After what has been said it need hardly be added 

 that the forests of Switzerland are for the most part 

 in admirable condition. Systematic forest manage- 

 ment has probably been known there as long as any- 

 where in Europe, and nowhere can finer individual 

 examples be found. I have seen nothing, even in 

 Germany, which seemed to me to be so workmanlike 

 as the management of the Sihlwald, a forest belong- 



