AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 
Germany’s neighbor to the south-east, and until 1866 
a member of the German Empire or Federation, largely 
settled by Germans, and hence swayed by German 
thought, developed forestry methods on much the same 
lines as the mother country. Yet there are differences 
to be found, due to difference in economic development, 
and there is for the United States perhaps more to be 
learned from Austria in the matter of introducing 
forestry methods, especially as lately practiced in Bosnia- 
Herzegovina, than from any other country, for economic 
conditions are in several respects alike. 
The interest in the forest history of Austria lies 
especially in the fact that private forest property in large 
Zur Forstgeschichte Oesterreichs, by BINDER VON KRIEGELSTEIN, 
in Verhandlungen der K, K. Landwirthschaft lischaft, 1836. 
Geschichte der Oesterreichischen Land-und Forstwirtschaft und threr 
Industrieen, 1848-1898. 5 vols., 1902, parts referring to forestry, vols. 4 and 5, by 
Dr. von Guttenberg and 15 others ; a unique, and most comprehensive work, mag- 
nificently published as a jubilee of the semicentennial of the coronation of 
Emperor Franz Joseph. 
Die Forste der Staats-und Fondsgiiter, by KARL SCHINDLER, 1885 and 
1889, 2 vols., pp. 487 and 742, contains in greatest detail with historical data a 
description of the State and Funds forests and their management. 
Jahrbuch der Staats-und Fondsgiiter-verwaltung, 9 vols.,by L. Dimitz, 
1897-1904 cont. 
Urkunde lung zur Geschichte der ungarischen Forstwirthschaft by 
ALBERT v. BEDO, 1896, in Magyar. 
Die Wirthschaftlichen und Ki ztellen Beschretbungen der Walder 
des Ungarischen Staates, by A.v. BEDO, 2d edition, 1896, 4 vols., 2242 pp., 4° 
blished as a jubilee of the t I exi of H y. First volume 
contains the general description, third vol the details of gover forests. 
A magnificent work describing in detail the forests and forest management of 
Hungary. This is briefed by the same author in a chapter in “7he Millenium 
of Hungary and its People, by JEKELFALUSSY, 1897.” 
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