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high mountain country the age limit for timber cutters and haulers is 

 set at 55 to 60 years. As shown in table 13, there are relatively few 

 regular workers under 21 or over 60 years old, and the proportion 

 between these ages tends to increase. More than one-third of the 

 occasional workers, on the other hand, are young people under 21. 

 Most of these are employed during the planting season. 



Table 13. — Percent distribution of male and female laborers in the State forests of 

 Bavaria, by age classes, 1925 and 1931 l 



REGULAR WORKERS, EMPLOYED 100 DAYS OR MORE 



Age class (years) 



1931 



1925 



Males 



Females 



Males 



Females 



Under 16 



Percent 



0.2 



.6 



1.6 



18.0 



23.8 



22.1 



24.0 



7.5 



1.8 



.4 



Number 

 9,435 



Percent 



1.1 



1.8 



5.5 



25.4 



23.4 



18.3 



18.8 



2 5.7 



Percent 



0.9 



1.6 



3.4 



21.5 



19.0 



24.5 



19.4 



'"9.7 



Percent 

 6.5 



16 to 18 



6.3 



18 to 20 _ 



9 2 



21 to 30 



31 to 40 



30.8 

 12 1 



41 to 50 . 



13.4 



51 to 60 



12.6 



61 to 65 



2 9 1 



66 to 70 





Over 70 











Number 

 437 



Number 

 15, 323 



Number 

 1,297 







Under 16. 

 16 to 18— 

 18 to 20— 

 Over 20- . 



All ages. 



OCCASIONAL WORKERS, EMPLOYED LESS THAN 100 DAYS 



11.0 



7.2 



11.1 



10.3 



11.9 



7.2 



11.6 



15.4 



8.1 



67.1 



65.5 



73.6 



Number 



Number 



Number 



8,779 



18, 068 



24, 049 



16.9 

 15.3 

 15.6 

 52.2 



Number 

 21, 074 



i Based on official reports (-5) . 

 2 Includes all over 60. 



Note.— For each class of workers, columns total 100 percent vertically. 



EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN WURTTEMBERG AND BADEN 



The instructions of the- Wurttemberg Forest Service also state that 

 preference shall be given to workers living near the forest, and to those 

 dependent for part of their livelihood on forest work. In order to 

 save travel time, work is to be assigned, so far as practical, to the 

 workers living nearest to the place where the work is to be done. In 

 both Wurttemberg and Baden outsiders are not supposed to be brought 

 in to do forest work; if there are not enough local persons in need of 

 work, small farmers may be hired. Needy persons are generally to 

 be employed rather than those who have farms large enough to sup- 

 port them (l,v. 16, p. 520). 



In Baden, at least, some of the work of timber cutting in communal 

 forests was formerly given to the lowest bidders. In 1935 the Reich's 

 Minister of the Interior put an end to this practice, on the ground 

 that farmers' sons who did not. need the work had been underbidding 

 unemployed men and small landowners who did need it (1, v. 17, p. 

 901). 



