FORESTS AND FORESTRY OF GERMANY 



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Fine Growth of Spkuce near Kronach, Germany. A Sliding Road in the Forest. 



should be cut in any one year than was produced the same year. After 

 the coal mines were opened and with the better means of transporta- 

 tion, all fear of a fuel famine passed away, but the practise and con- 

 ception of conservative, as well as constructive forestry, had taken such 

 a deep hold upon the public mind, that it is small wonder the art has 

 reached a stage of intensive development that no other nation can 

 rival. Through generations of practical tests and experiments, with 

 many failures at first, but with a persistency worthy of the cause and 

 characteristic of the race, German sylviculture has attained a high 

 degree of perfection. Attention is called to a few typical forest areas 

 that were among those visited by the writer. 



Sprdce and Fir Stand in a Typical German Forest. 



