34 FORESTRY IN POLAND. 



beech to cover the ground and keep down the growth of 

 grass. All these, and a hundred other details, are constantly 

 presenting themselves for consideration and settlement, 

 and the local forest officer should be ever on the alert to 

 detect the necessity of any change and bring it into notice, 

 and no less than the controlling branch should be pre- 

 pared to suggest what is best to be done, and be conver- 

 sant with what has been done, and with what results, 

 under similar circumstances, in other districts and pro- 

 vinces.' 



Such is the method of exploitation which was introduced 

 into Poland in 1858 by Baron von Berg ; and though there 

 may have been such a degeneration by reversion to older and 

 inferior methods of exploitation, as is intimated by Herr 

 Krause in his Critical Examination of the Forest System of the 

 Kingdom of Poland , the method in its characteristic details 

 is still followed. 



