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tion themselves within a fixed period, and, if 

 necessary, they are assisted with financial aid, 

 or with seeds, plants, and labour. The work in 

 all cases is under the supervision and control 

 of the Forest Staff. As a further safeguard the 

 practice of grazing sheep and cattle in these 

 regions is very strictly regulated, the communes 

 being required to furnish the prefects with full 

 information concerning their pasture lands and 

 the number of live stock they propose to place 

 thereon. The allotment and duration of graz- 

 ing is subject to modification by the forest 

 officers, and, where the pubhc interest demands 

 it, this power is strictly enforced. Up to 1891 

 this extensive scheme of reafforestation had cost 

 the State over two millions sterhng, and about 

 half of this sum had to be expended in engineer- 

 ing works to render possible the replanting of 

 the watershed areas of mountain torrents. 



In the colony of Algeria forestry is pursued 

 with the same care as in Prance. The total 

 area under forest in this province is 8,119,000 

 acres, but nearly a quarter of this area is situated 

 in districts remote from settlement, and is, 

 therefore, not utilized at present, The State 

 owns 4,398,000 acres; 192,000 acres belong to 

 communes and 1,170,000 acres to private persons. 

 A considerable extent of the land under forest 

 bears inferior timber, and the value of the annual 



