212 FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



should be mentioned the measures of encouragement, which consist in the opportunity for the 

 education ot foresters, dissemination of information, and financial aid. 



In tbe latter respect Prussia, in the decade 1882-1892, contributed for reforestation of waste 

 places by private owners $335,000, besides large amounts of seeds and plants from its State 

 nurseries. Instiuction m forestry to farmers is given at twelve agricultural schools in Prussia. 

 In nearly all States permission is given to Government officers for compensation, to undertake at 

 the request of the owners the regulation or even management of private forest property. 



For tbe education of the lower class of foresters there may be some twenty special schools in 

 Germany and Austria, while for the higher classes not only ten special forest academies aie 

 available, but three universities and two polytechnic institutes have forestry faculties. 



Besides, all States have lately inaugurated systems of forest experiment stations; and 

 forestry associations, not of propagandists but of practitioners, abound. As a lesult of all this 

 activity in forestry science and practice, not less than twenty forestry journals in the German 

 language exist, besides many official and association reports and a most prolific book literature. 



