FORESTRY IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 267 



On the 30th of April, 1870, a provincial law was promulgated for the pro- 

 tection of agriculture against ravages by caterpillars, maybugs, and other in- 

 jurious insects. The following is a translation of such of its sections as have 

 a slight bearing on forestry : 



Section i . Every holder of a piece of land, whether proprietor or tenant, is obliged before 

 the close of March in every year to clean the fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, hedges, fences, 

 and walls in his gardens, vineyards, fields, and meadows of involved caterpillars, eggs of in- 

 sects and larvae, and to burn or otherwise destroy the gathered nests of caterpillars and eggs. 



In the same manner are to be destroyed the caterpillars as soon as they appear in the spring 

 upon trees, shrubs, and cultivated plants, as well as the larvEe, within a time fixed by the chair- 

 man of the commune in a public proclamation. 



When trees infested with caterpillars are cut down, or branches in such condition lopped 

 off, they must be cleaned of the caterpillars without delay, or burned. 



Section 3. The persons named in section i are equally bound to shake off daily, and 

 especially early in the morning, the maybugs during their swarming period, within the time 

 named by the chairman of the commune, from fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, and avenue 

 trees ; also from trees on the outskirts of forests, in cases where the forests are so near the said 

 trees that the neglect of shaking would make the whole measure nugatory, and to destroy them 

 or use them for agricultural purposes. 



RELIABLE SELLERS OF SEEDS AND SHOOTS. 



Prince Schwarzenberg's forest bureaus at Frauenberg, Krumau and Win- 

 terberg; Domaine Sazava; Rott and Vogel, Prague; V. Samal, Jungbunzlau. 



CHARLES JONAS, 



Consul. 



United States Consulate, 



Prague, April 14, i88y. 



