260 Norway. 



These schools prepare for State service, as well as for 

 managers of private forests. 



A forest experiment station was organized ia 1903, 

 aa. independent institution in the Domain Bureau, 

 under the direct charge of a practitioner. Every third 

 year a commission is to determine what work is to be 

 undertaken. The appropriation, which so far is hardly 

 $5,000 per annum, will not permit much expansion. 

 The first number of its publication, Meddelanden fran 

 Statens Shogs F'orsbhsanstalt, was issued in 1904. 



That a forestry public exists in Sweden is attested by 

 a forest association with an organ SJcogsvards Fore- 

 ningens Tidshrift, which was founded 3 years ago 

 (1903). The journal is the continuation of an earlier 

 magazine, Tidshrift fbr Shogshushallnvng, a quarterly, 

 begun in 1869 and running until 1903. A periodical for 

 rangers, etc., is also in existence under the name of 

 STeogsv'dnnen. 



In 1902 also, there was formed a lumberman's trust to 

 regulate the output, which the forest owners proposed to 

 meet by an associated effort to raise stumpage charges. 

 The attempt of the lumbermen to restrict the cut in 

 1902 was, however, a failure, for the export of that year 

 was 10% larger than the previous year. 



It is expected that the new law will have the tendency 

 of decreasing the cut and of inaugurating a new era in 

 forestry matters generally. 



NORWAY. 



Norway, occupying with 124,445 square miles over 

 one-third of the Scandinavian peninsular, is for the 

 most part a mountainous plateau with deep valleys and 

 lakes. Its numerous fjords and water ways make 



