The growing interest in forest planting in the United States recalls to our mind the way the timber question was met once by the English government in China. The timber supplies began to grow short. A school of foresters was at once set on foot. Old officers were sent to France to learn the science, to Germany to study the practice of preserving their timber, and young men were engaged for a regular course of instruction, to be employed afterward in the service in India.

In some of the European States, the timber plant districts are guarded with the most zealous care. In Hanover, there are 900,000 acres of wood under State management.

In Prussia, nearly one-fourth of its whole area is in forest, although one-half of it is in the hands of private persons, who are just as jealous in taking care of it.

In Hanover, as an example, there is an organized corps appointed over its forests, consisting of one manager, with twenty division officers, 112 district foresters, 403 assistants, 303 under foresters, besides occasional laborers. There is a cash keeper in each district, and the net result is that, with an expenditure of $650,000, there is an income of $1,500,000, besides saving much that would be wasted.