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a wayside; hut in the forest eor the protection oe eorest workmen and 



travelers 



mender and the woodsman quoted above. 

 In other words, the majority of the com- 

 munity is made up of two classes : those 

 who barely make a living and those who 

 have a small annual surplus. Under the 

 restricted circumstances, these results are 

 indeed remarkable, and the manner in 

 which these results are obtained is as in- 

 structive as it is interesting. 



Every inch of soil is utilized to its 

 utmost capacity ; even the rocky slopes 

 of the hillsides, which in America would 

 be a barren waste, are made to yield the 

 giant timbers. The income from the 

 common forest alone pays the salary of 

 all the officials, furnishes the necessary 

 means of maintaining the splendid high- 

 ways, and in the Gemeinde of Baiers- 

 bronn pays to every burgher an annual 

 revenue of thirty-five marks in cash, 



which he may draw from the public 

 treasury or cancel against his taxes. 

 This does not include the revenue from* 

 the royal forest lying within the territory 

 of the local community. Each local gov- 

 ernmental unit has a forest of its own,,. 

 which is managed and cared for by the 

 local officials subject to the general super- 

 vision of the state, which provides that 

 both in the royal and in the community- 

 forest the amount of timber cut annually 

 shall not exceed the annual growth. It 

 is thus that the forest is peroetuated from 

 generation to generation and that this 

 important industry furnishes constant 

 employment to a definite number of 

 workmen. Forestry thus becomes a 

 science and every man connected with its 

 care and management, from the highest 

 official to the common woodsman, be- 



