GERMAN FORESTRY STUDENTS. 



A GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, TOGETHER WITH PROF. SCHUPFER, DR. EADRES, AND PROF. FABRICIUS. 

 FORSTMEISTER HAPPACK OF THE KRAMSACH FOREST, STANDS IN THE FRONT ROW, WEARING THE TYPICAL 



MOUNTAIN COSTUME. 



THE 



THE BAVARIAN FORESTER 



By G. H. COLLINGWOOD. 



[This article was written in Munich, Germany, by Mr. Collingwood, just before the 

 outbreak of the war. Since that time a number of the Bavarian forest employes have joined 

 their commands and have seen some brisk campaigning. Several Bavarian regiments were 

 in the hard fighting in Alsace-Lorraine. The higher forest officials are exempt from military 

 service, except in cases of extreme need. Whether any of them have been called to the 

 front or are now under arms is not known. EDITOR.] 



IN GERMANY the possibility of a 

 Ranger raising through the vari- 

 ous stages of the Forest Service to 

 that of Supervisor or District 

 Officer is quite out of the question, for 

 from the very beginning of their edu- 

 cation the two officers follow along 

 different courses. To be sure, they 

 may both start in the public school 

 together, but after four years in 

 the Volksschule, as it is known, the fu- 

 ture Forstmeister leaves to go into the 

 gymnasium, while the future Ranger, or 

 Forster as he is known in Bavaria, re- 

 mains three years longer in the Volks- 

 schule. He who hopes to be a Forst- 

 meister must first choose parents who 



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can afford to give him the required 

 education, and help support him for 

 several years after he has secured a po- 

 sition in the government Forest Serv- 

 ice. In fact in Prussia there is a law 

 which makes it necessary for a young 

 forest man to have a sufficient income 

 to make him financially independent 

 during the first twelve years after leav- 

 ing the Academy or University. 



The boy who leaves the Volksschule 

 at the end of his fourth year to enter 

 the gymnasium must remain there nine 

 years before finishing. Forestry work, 

 even in Germany, does not require any 

 deep knowledge of Latin and Greek, so 



