8 FORESTRY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



Middle or preparatory schools for forest culture. 



Three of these preparatory schools have been established in the Empire: 

 One at Eulenberg, another at Weisswasser, and the third at Lunberg. 



The conditions of admission to the Eulenberg school are the followmg. 



1. The applicant must be agraduate of a lower gymnasium (under gymnasium or untereal- 



schule, preparatory college). , , „„„ „pnr as the 



2. He must have served with good success for two, or at the very least one year, as the 



apprentice of a forest official. 



3. He must not be less than seventeen and not more than twenty-four years old. 

 4 Must be in perfect health, and vaccinated. 



5. Must furnish security as to means required for instruction, clothing, and support. 



6. Must pass a preliminary examination by the teachers of the school. 



The scholars, whose number shall not exceed twenty to twenty-five per 

 annum, reside at the institute. 



The branches taught embrace mathematics, field engineering, drawmg, 

 natural history, forest culture, forest laws, business correspondence, office 

 routine business, and hunting. 



The conditions of admission to the other two middle schools are of about 

 the same character, and nearly the same branches are taught there, all calcu- , 

 lated to fit the student for admission at the university at Vienna. 



In all these schools excursions are made by the scholars under the guidance 

 of the teachers for the purpose of combining pradlical illustration with theo- 

 retical knowledge in the branches of natural history, forest culture, preserva- 

 tion, and valuation. 



Examinations take place at the end of each semester (term). 



Elementary (niedere) schools for forest culture. 



The Ministry of Agriculture has established four of these lower schools, 

 one in Tyrol, one in Styr, one in Galicia, and one in Agglsbach. 



Course of study : Mathematics, geometrical exercises, field engineering, 

 measuring of wood and timber cut and standing, measuring of earth and ex- 

 cavations, writing, drawing, natural history, geology, mineralogy, zoology, 

 game as distinguished from other animals. 



PraBical works : Felling timber; numbering, measuring, and piling same; 

 planting and replanting forests ; draining and irrigation ; protedlion against 

 insects and fires; charcoal making, sawing lumber and hunting. 



The scholars are also required to construe and explain the most important 

 provisions of the forest laws and to commit them to memory. 



They are also taught the use, value, &c., of all building material, viz, 

 wood, lime, bricks, stone, sand, &c. , and are instructed in the building and 

 clearing of forest roads and securing of the banks of forest streams, and re- 

 pairing fissures in same, &c. 



As teachers in these elementary schools experienced forest officers are de- 

 tailed. 



