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Subject to similar punishment are persons who kindle fires in dangerous places of forests 

 and woods and who enter or drive cattle into nursery forests which are surrounded with a 

 fence or the entrance to which is interdicted. 



Sec. 370. Forbids the unlawful diminution of forestal land by digging or ploughing. 



In conclusion of this, my report, I wish to refer parties interested to some 

 other highly valuable books on forestal matters, of which I transmit copies : 



1 . Compendium (already alluded to) of Forestal Science, by Dr. Fischbach. 



2. Compendium of Utilization of Forests, by Dr. Glayer. 



3. Handbook on Forest Administration Science, by Dr. Schnappach. 

 4-5. Russian Forests, by Chief Forester Donner. 



STUDENTS SHOULD VISIT FOREST SCHOOLS IN GERMANY. 



It is a matter of regret that, notwithstanding many hundreds of young 

 Americans enter annually German universities, polytechnical, and other 

 schools, very few, if any, avail themselves of the advantages which are offered 

 by a course of studies at the renowned forestal academies of Eberswalde and 

 Miinden. " 



F. RAINE, 



Consul- General. 



United States Consulate-General, 



Berlin, March 18, 1887. 



ANNABERG. 



REPORT OF CONSUL GOODWIN. 



There is probably no country in the world where higher revenues from 

 the forests are got than in Saxony, nor where greater or more intelligent care 

 is bestowed upon them. Nearly all kinds of trees which grow in any part of 

 Germany are found in Saxony, but in this consular district, a mountain 

 region, firs and pines, nadelhohern, chiefly firs, the very trees from which the 

 wooden toy-trees we played with in our childhood were modelled, and which, 

 when we grew older, we thought were too precise and stiff to be like any real 

 trees, are chiefly grown, and the existing forests are composed almost entirely 

 of them. In the adjoining city of Buchholz {beech wood) there were 

 doubtless many years ago forests of beech of considerable importance, for 

 the place was known as "St. Catharinenberg im Buchholz" {St. Catharines- 

 in-the-beech woods) until early in the sixteenth century, when the long name 

 was shortened into Buchholz. At present, however, the forests in and 

 around Buchholz are composed entirely of firs. In the four forestry districts 

 of Marienberg, Annaberg, Schwarzenberg and Auerbach the wooded land 

 amounted in 1878, the date of the most recent general official report, to 

 about 83,600 hectares (i hectare^ 2.471 acres) or about 48 per cent, of the 



