I learned much about forestry from Head Foresters Freiherr von Bevel (Joachimsthal, Schorfheide) and Freiherr Speck von Sternburg (Szittkohnen, Rominten) on my many hunting expeditions with these excellent huntsman and administrators.
Let mo say a word here rogarding a Russian curiosity in the domain of preserving wild game. The Tsar, who had heard a great deal about the fine antlers of the stags at Rominten, wished to have some of the same sort at Spala, in Poland. Freiherr von Sternburg was sent to the Spala hunting lodge one summer in order fo give advice regarding this project.
Ha was received very cordially by a General, who had charge of the hunting there and lived at thet lodge. Sternburg noticed that sll the apartments, even those not inhabited, were always kept heated. When he spoke of the enormous waste of wood occasioned by this, the General shrugged his shoulders and remarked that one never could tell, the Tsar might put in an appearance some day, after all. A gamekeeper, who was a German, was assigtied to Sternburg, since the General did not know his way about on the reservation and was quite ignorant of game feeding.
In the course of his tours about the place Sternburg observed a number of places where meadows could be turned into pastures or good feeding places could be installed. He drew attention to the need of such arrangements, having noticed that the deer bad already begun to shed their horns to a considerable extent, thereby causing much damage to the trees.
*His recent death, which snatched him away in the midst of beneficial lab serious lors to the Fatherland, or? 188
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