190 ELEMENTARY FORESTRY. 
its forestry service as it now has. In the renting of landas a game 
preserve, it is customary to limit the number of deer, etc., that 
shall be killed in any one season. It is customary to make an 
estimate of the game of the forest ranges each year. In the case 
of deer this is done by feeding them in paddocks during the win- 
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Government Supervision of Forests in Germany. It is 
the policy of the government in most of the German provinces 
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Figure . A fine young growth of Norway Spruce (Picea excelsa) in 
the forest garden of the “Giessen Forestry School’’ in Hessen, Germany. 
not to interfere more than is necessary in the management of 
private woodlands, although the custom varies in the different 
provinces. On this account, where the land is not much broken, 
there are few requirements in regard to maintaining forests; but 
where the land is much broken, as is the case in the Bavarian 
Alps and the Black Forest, it is sometimes customary to require 
private owners to deposit the cost of replanting their land 
when they cut their timber, and if they do not attend to the 
