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(3) Review of the silvicultural method of treatment, the 

 rotation, division of area, etc. 



(4) Review of the regulation of the cut both in determina- 

 tion and distribution. This may involve a partial or even 

 complete revision of the estimates. 



(5) The drawing up of new general cutting and planting 

 plans according to the revised regulation. 



(6) The correction or even redrafting of the forest map. 



II. Bavaria 



Bavaria is the second largest of the German States. Of its 

 18,739,890 acres, 32.51 per cent (6,072,386 acres) are in forest. 



Bavaria presents widely varying topographic and forest 

 conditions, from the rugged spruce and fir-clad northern ranges 

 of the Alps along the southern boundary, through the varied 

 spruce, fir, and Scotch pine stands mixed more or less with hard- 

 woods, of the central and northern portions, to the extensive 

 stands of pure spruce on the east — the famous " Bohemian 

 woods," low ranges not exceeding 5000 feet elevation, which 

 form the boundary with Austria — and the magnificent oaks of 

 the Spessart in the north-west corner. 



The market for timber in Bavaria is very variable. In the 

 more remote locaHties, such as the Alps on the south or the 

 " Bohemian woods " on the east, utilization is necessarily still 

 incomplete. In the northern and central portions of the king- 

 dom intensive agriculture has brought with it the profitable 

 possibility of complete utilization. 



Systematic forest organization in Bavaria dates from 1830, 

 when the combined period method (see method No. 17) was 

 adopted by a governmental order.* The period was taken as 

 twenty-four years instead of the customary twenty years. The 

 cut was regulated for three periods — seventy-two years — in 

 advance. 



The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth 



* " Instruktion fiir Forstwirtschaftseinrichtung," June 30, 1830. 



