FORESTRY IN GERMANY. 



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' The following table shows the area of state forests in the different prov- 

 inces, also the number and the average size of each oberfosterei : 



Oberforsterei. 



Average size of 

 oberforsterei. 



East Prussia 



West Prussia ... 

 Erandenberg ... 



Fomerania 



Posen 



Silesia 



Saxony 



Schleswig 



Hanover 



Westphalia 



Hessen-Na.ssau 

 Rhine Province 



Total 



Hectares. 

 359.241 

 273,174 

 369,510 

 170,619 

 162,029 

 131,325 

 169,480 



30,111 

 235,074 



57,189 

 253,003 

 143,284 



74 

 47 

 72 

 42 

 28 

 34 

 55 

 ■ 16 

 104 



19 

 146 

 42 



Hectares. 



4,855 

 5,812 

 5,132 

 4,062 

 5,787 

 4,451 

 3,081 

 1,882 

 2,260 

 3,009 

 1,733 

 3,412 



2,374,039 



679 



There is a treasurer for each oberforsterei. He is an independent officer 

 and is alone responsible for the administration of his bureau. The govern- 

 ment appoints him and he is required to give bond for the faithful discharge 

 of his duties. 



The foresters under the supervision of the chief forester (pberforster) are 

 of two classes, namely, those who protect and attend to the practical manage- 

 ment of the forests, the so-called forsters (foresters), and waldwarter 

 (forest attendant), and the assistant foresters, the so-called forsthulfsaufs- 

 cher. The immediate head of the chief forester is the district government, 

 ' especially its department of finance, and whose organs for the administration 

 and supervision of the forests and the finances are in the person of \}!\tforst- 

 meister (forest master) and oberforstmeister (head forest master), the former 

 has control over a certain number of the chief forests within the government 

 district, and the latter over all in the government district. Tht forstmeister 

 resides at the seat of the district government as a technical member of it. 

 He has to personally inspect every part of the district at least three times a 

 year, assist in carrying out the regulations of work and in adjusting the 

 finance, in controlling and fixing the annual plans of culture and the felling 

 of the forest, subject to the supervision of the oberforstmeister. Further, he 

 has to examine all the work done in the forest and its protection, inspect the 

 book of the oberforster and the accounts of the treasurer, check the forest 

 cash account and the inventories, and inspect once every five years all the 

 forest boundaries of every forest district within his district, and report as to 

 their condition. As a member of the district government he has to work out 

 all business matters which directly concern his inspection district, except in 

 cases where the work is specially provided for. All reports of the obeiforster 

 to the government must be sent through the hands of the forstmeister. 



