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proper working order, areas of approximately 

 equal production may be regularly cut. Cutting 

 is contrived so tliat the trees may not be unduly 

 exposed to wind storms. Considerations of 

 drought, fire, disease and insect attack are not 

 forgotten. The yield calculations are also taken 

 into consideration, also from the general plan 

 thus prepared, a special plan is , formulated for 

 the first period or half-period, dealing with 

 felling, planting, road making, etc. On this 

 plan the forest officer prepares his annual work- 

 ing plan, which is subject to revision by the 

 controlUng stafi. 



The course of training essential to candidates 

 for the forest service is severe and comprises 

 theoretical work in schools and universities, 

 combined with practical work in the forests. 

 After passing the ordinary" examinations at the 

 gymnasium or realschule, the student goes for 

 six or twelve months into the woods to learn 

 the general outHnes of forestry work.. Next he 

 goes for two and a half or three years to a 

 forestry school, where he undergoes a course 

 of theoretical and. practical work. The chief 

 forestry schools are at Eberswalde, Miinden, 

 Aschaffenburg, Tharand, Karlsruhe, Giessen, 

 Eisenach and Tubingen. Erom the technical 

 school he goes to some university to learn 

 jurisprudence and political economy, and he 



