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INSTRUCTION IN FORESTRY.
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the prohibition of lumbering and selling timber that is undersized only refers to
fir and pine wood which is not dead, being thus a moderation of previous provisions.
On the contrary, export of such timber has been prohibited, not only through
shipping but also by way of rail. Besides this, the law has been completed with
provisions ancnt the prevention of young woods being lumbered for the
manufacturing of wood-pulp, except upon special permission.
All the new laws above mentioned have been promulgated on July
24, 1903, and come into force on January 1, 1905, with the exception,
however, of the alterations in the law for the Läns of Vesterbotten and
Norrbotten and the new statutes concerning the management of certain
public forests, which are to be valid from January 1, 1904.
Instrnction in Forestry.
In order to be qualified to obtain an appointment in the Forest
service, it is necessary for a candidate, not only to have served one
year in a »Revir» as an aspirant, but also to have passed in all subjects
the examination held at the close of the higher course at the Institute
of Forestry. As a State institution this educational establishment dates
from the year 1828. The honour of having called the institution into
being belongs to Israel Adolf af Ström, who in other ways, too, has
occupied a prominent position in the history of Forest Economy in
Sweden. Already some years previously to the founding of this State
institution he had established a private college of forestry.
The statutes now in force regulating the Institute of Forestry, as well as the
other educational institutions in the Forest service, date from 1886, subject to the
modifications and additions made in 1893 and 1903; these were chiefly concerned
partly (1893) with the lower course then introduced at the Institute for the training
of foresters to enter the employ of private owners of woods, and partly (1903) with
an increase and a change in the time of study. To be admitted to the higher
course at the Institute of Forestry, it is compulsory to have passed the university
entrance examination on the scientific line or, if the examination has been passed
on the classical, to have taken a complementary examination in Mathemathics,
Physics, and Chemistry, corresponding to the tests in those subjects on the
scientific line. Moreover, it is enacted that applicants shall have gone through
the course of instruction given at the Omberg School of Forestry, at which in
1886 an one-year course was instituted preparing for the Institute of Forestry.
Owing to the great number of applicants, a similar forest school has during 1900
been organized at the Crown park of Kloten.
The course of the Institute itself is a two-year one, embracing theoretical
instruction and practical exercises, the latter taking place chiefly in the summer
time of both years, during nearly four months each year. The theoretical course
includes: firstly the following branches of the science of Forest Economy: Forest
Management, Forest Technology, Forest Architecture, Geodesy, Partition of Forests,
Forest Mathematics, and secondly the following subjects in sciences allied to
Forest Economy: Botany, Diseases of Trees, Knowledge of Game, Geology and the
Science of Soil-composition, Zoology, Mineralogy, Chemistry, Physics, Meteorology
»nd Climatology, Economical and Financial Law, Forest and Game Laws, together
with general Law, Political Economy, Rural Economy, and Book-keeping.
The number of pupils in the higher course is limited to 20, that is to say
10 in each division; at present the maximum number is raised to 30. To the
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