The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-08-19
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 m"m,hs If theoretical and two and . hMli months If practical instruction. The annual revenue from the Gov. ernmeni f,r~sis nf FrHpcs snd Algiers excr-ds t6.000. .0O0, and ihs expenses fir 1896 wer~ estimated at eS. 800. 900. In Germany the d~strnction of for ssis which occurred in ihs seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has caussd the advance Of sand dunes from thS shores of the Baltic. the washing away Of surfArs snjl in ths western noun. tAinOMs disirIste by t0rrentiAl doOds, sud the overwhelming of fertile val. lrys with debris from mnun,ain slopes. Forestry hns thus bs.eil lorcrd dlnn ih1 attention Of tho Government. B'uniirs arc granted L, cOmmunss which undertake tree culture up,n waste nl"nntain slopes, seedlings and young trees are supplied at cost, and considerable sums are spAut annually by the State in forest improvement, aud especially In checking the advance of sand dunes.
 ln 1887 there wers in Prussia 8o90 fr~stsrs and 249 forest guards; pts viOus servics im the army is \ condi- tion of appointment io these grades.
 There are twO forest academies in Prussia. one at Eberswalde and the other at Mundet. l'hs course of study covsrx iwn years, and Is designed to tt the pupil for ths higher grades of the forest service. There are also two classes of preparatory forest schools, fur practical instruction in the duties of the lower grades.
 The forest administration of Prussia contributes . large sum to the revenue, the annual receipts being about tl4,- O0O, 900 and the expenditures about sS.O00, ,00O.
 The total area of forest land under the control of the forest service in l894-95 was l2 per ceut. of the total surface of India. or 1l2.952 square miles. of which 74.27i miles were re- served forests. 7090 protected forests, and 3l.59l unclxss-d state forests. The increase f,r the previous year exceeded 5000 square miles, acquired by the settlement or extinction of prescriptiye tights. The total length uf bn,nLarirs ,l-marcated up to June 30, 1895 in provinces under the gov -rnmrnt of India alone. was upward of 60.000 square miles.
 The c,,st If effective protection in India. where fires are at least as diffi. cult to control as in the United States, is rather less than half cent an acre per aDnum.
 The gross revenue from the forests is given at 16. 788. .88U rupees, and the ne, at 7.4l5.590. or about &S.000, 900.
 The hast annual rep,rt for the Pro- vince of Quebec gives total of 264 forest officials. The total revenue frnm numbering operations in this pro vince collected during the year ending June 80, 1896, amounted to $95i.- O98 92.
 Reports from 49 timber limits tn Ontario during the summer of 1895 show that iha value of the timber damaged by fire was only $4l. 500.
 Aud the Canadian forest officers are that forest areas which might well have amounted to hundreds | nf square miles would have been burn, over during that exceptionally dry summer without .hs presrnce at exposed points of this trained corps pf Forest Rangers. This saving in Ontario has been effected by tie em- ,,loymant of IA men fnr few months. Ut n total cast of t26. .253. shared be- tween the public treasury and ths owners of timber limits. The Ontario forest -d,e system has now been tried for nine years and it's compulsory ex- k recommended by the Cana diau Government officers. l. Quebec roualiy satisfactory results have foi- lowed the introduction Of the iorest- patrol system. which can no longer bc regarded ss experimental in that Pr''- vince.
 The value of the system which has been adopted in Csnads, under which the Government retains the fse of Us forest lands, would have been inesti- lpable in large immediate revenue and In future crnps of timber in such re- gious as those adjacent b Pugnt Sound or the cs,ast of northern Caii- fornia; but the fso of nearly all the Lest timber land iu the Unitsd States has now passed into the hands of in. diyid ua!s UT corporations, snd such policy can now he applied only to comparatively small areas generally covered with inferior timber.
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