FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 6 1 



Uncultivated areas not suited for agricultural purposes, and unoccupied, 

 must be converted into woodland by cities or communities owning them, 

 unless it can be shown that such waste places are irreclaimable. 



SEEDS. 



Pine tree seeds are prepared (dried) at seven establishments in this prov- 

 ince under the supervision of head foresters. The pine cones are gathered 

 and carefully housed for the purpose. The price per kilogram of seed ranges 

 from 60 cents to one dollar. 



FOREST SCHOOLS. 



A number of forest schools and academies exist in other Prussian prov- 

 inces, some of which receive subsidies from the government. A state for- 

 esters' school was also opened in 1882 at Proschkau, in this district, in which 

 sixteen pupils receive board, lodging and instruction for ^7.14 per month. 

 Here only reading, writing, arithmetic, and the elements, of geometry and 

 physics are taught by elementary teachers, aided by the head forester of 

 Proschkau and his assistants. The term of study is two years. 



State forests in Silesia are governed by the same laws as are those in the 

 remainder of Prussia, while the law of 1876, giving to the state the control 

 over the forests belonging to cities or commmunities, churches, parishes, and 

 other ecclesiastical corporations, public schools, higher educational insti- 

 tutes, benevolent institutions, &c., is identical in the provinces of Branden- 

 burg (Berlin), Silesia, Saxony, Posen, East and West Prussia, and Pomerania. 



Tree seeds and plants are sold in Silesia by Guido Drabizius, in Breslau ; 

 by Julius Knebel, in Liegnitz, and by the Graf von Nostitz'sche Pflanzen- 

 handlung, in Zobten am Bober. 



HENRY DITHMAR, 



Consul. 



United States Consulate, 



Breslau, March 12, 1887. 



