260 Norway. 
These schools prepare for State service, as well as for 
managers of private forests. 
A forest experiment station was organized in 1903, 
an 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 Skogs Forséksanstalt, was issued in 1904. 
That a forestry public exists in Sweden is attested by 
a forest association with an organ Skogsvards Fére- 
ningens Tidskrift, which was founded 3 years. ago 
(1902). The journal is the continuation of an earlier 
magazine, Tidskrift for Skogshushalining, a quarterly, 
begun in 1869 and running until 1903. A periodical for 
rangers, etc., is also in existence under the name of 
Skogsvannen. 
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 Scandinavign peninsular, is for the 
most part a mountainous plateau with deep valleys and 
lakes. Its numerous fjords and water ways make 
