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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



abolish National control of our navigable 

 streams. 



Maybe you will smile when I say 

 that in spite of the immense increase 

 in German population and the conse- 

 quent increase in farm values, Germany 

 today has more wealth in her forests 

 and a more abundant supply of game 

 than at any time since the days of 

 Stein ! 



Today you can shoot more and better 

 game in any part of Germany than in 

 the most favored wildernesses of this 

 country merely because the game laws 

 in Germany are honestly administered 

 whereas in New York State (at least) 

 they are something of a popular joke. 



Socialism does not frighten Germans 

 as it does us, because Germans trust 

 their rulers and especially is this true 

 in the matter of forest. The State can 

 afford to wait half a century for a new 

 tree and thus to spend millions in 

 reclaiming land for forest purposes 

 but few farmers can let their capital 



lie so long idle and exposed to so 

 many risks. 



The German State feels responsible 

 for the water-sheds, and acts on the 

 principle that people who have good 

 water to drink have scant excuse for 

 quenching their thirst by other means. 

 In New York State we have annual 

 epidemics of typhoid in many of our 

 country towns because the government 

 has no adequate control of the water- 

 sheds and our people drink more than 

 they should from streams that flow 

 through back yards where the latrine 

 is a conspicuous ornament. 



Germany does what private owners 

 can rarely do control the streams and 

 forests in the interest of navigation no 

 less than fish supply. In this State 

 we have poisoned the noble Hudson no 

 less than every other stream by per- 

 mitting private owners first to cut off 

 their timber without providing for 

 reforestation; secondly by allowing sew- 

 ers and factory waste to do their worst. 



WAR NOTES FROM FRENCH FORESTS 



[The following notes from "Revue des Eaux et Forets, translated by Mrs. L. van Raucke 

 from the January issue of that French forestry periodical are decidedly interesting Editor.] 



THE semesters of 1913-1914 of 

 the National Forest School 

 of Nancy, whose regular term 

 in 1913 had been shortened, 

 due to the fact that the military law 

 of August 7, 1913, went into effect, had 

 just closed at the moment when war 

 was declared. Most of the higher 

 officials of the school and experiment 

 station immediately went into service 

 as heads of battalions in the territorial 

 army, while the adjutants and scouts 

 were mobilized into the units of forest 

 chasseurs. 



"All the students have been in- 

 corporated into the active fighting 

 troops and, as we hear from the lists 

 published, many among them have 

 already fallen as victims of the war. 

 The Administration may well be proud 

 of these young men, one of whom has 

 already been decorated with the cross 

 of the Legion of Honor. 



'The school itself was converted 

 into a hospital during the month of 

 August; beds have been installed in 

 the recitation rooms and gymnasium 

 and even (for the summer only) in the 

 storerooms. The lecture amphitheater 

 No. 2 has been transformed into a 

 linen room. The cabinet of one of the 

 professors is used for dressing wounds. 

 The students' dormitories are reserved 

 as a rule for the officers and non- 

 commissioned officers. Naturally, the 

 garden is at every one's disposal. This 

 temporary hospital constitutes an annex 

 of one established in the neighborhood 

 at the Jeanne d'Arc Lyceum, and 

 forms a part of the sanitary stations 

 established by the women of France. 



'The soldiers who are slightly 

 wounded, whose number has sometimes 

 exceeded 150 men, officers who are ill, 

 and convalescent privates have occupied 

 the hospital and all have seemed to 



