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forest assessor and his name is placed on a wait- 

 ing list. He may have to wait for eight or ten 

 years before he is appointed a district forester, 

 but during this period he is usually given some 

 administrative or scientific work on daily wages, 

 such as the making and correction of valuations, 

 or in laying out roads, acting as tutor and reUev- 

 ing or assisting district foresters. The higher 

 offices are filled by selection, length of service 

 being considered only where it is united to 

 special fitness. The pay is not high, but the 

 position is a permanent one and carries the right 

 to a pension. The director or oberland foist- 

 meister only receives £720 per annum. 



That the G-erman forest organization is efiicient 

 there can be no denying, and the present standard 

 has only been attained after generations of 

 patient effort and labour seconded by the people 

 of all ra,nks. 



Switzerland. Efficient forest management 

 around the city of Zurich has been in practice 

 for nearly five hundred years, but, throughout 

 Switzerland generally, forestry was only de- 

 veloped about the middle of the eighteenth 

 century. Between 1780 and 1790 several of the 

 cantons appointed forest officers with duties as 

 examiners of State and communal forests. At 

 this time large tracts of pubHc forest were 



