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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



and Southern Appa- 

 lachians in North Car- 

 ohna ; summer, Ten- 

 nessee; fall, Wisconsin 

 and Michigan. 



The excursion to Ger- 

 many affords a chance 

 for scientific stud y 

 along- the following 

 lines : 



I. 



Forest manage- 



AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old, 33 inches diameter, Trippstadt, Germany 



forestry is found in central and south- 

 ern Germany, but for practical work in 

 timber cruising, road, bridge, and rail- 

 road building, logging and milling, the 

 Southern Appalachians and the forests 

 of the Lake States of the United States 

 form desirable working fields. The 

 Biltmore Forest School is seeking these 

 different sites adapted to the study of 

 each branch of forestry, having a new 

 working field each season of the year — 

 winter, Germany ; spring, Adirondacks, 



ment, varymg accord- 

 ing to ownership (state, 

 communal, and pri- 

 vate), and according to 

 type — pineries of tire 

 Rhine X'alley, primeval 

 white oak of the Spes- 

 sart Mountains, hard- 

 woods of the Oden- 

 wald, and spruce and 

 silver fir of the Black 

 h^orest. 



2. Silviculture — nurs- 

 eries, reforestation, un- 

 derplanting, thinnings. 



3. The classification 

 and distribution of the 

 forest trees of the 

 United States. Ger- 

 many has the zvorld's 

 best experimental plots 

 of American forest trees 

 and the world's oldest 

 forest plantations of a 

 z'uriefy of American 

 trees, notably of white 

 pine, Douglas fir, se- 

 quoia, zvestern yellow 

 pine, Port Oxford ce- 

 dar, yellozv cedar, zvest- 

 ern red cedar, Sitka 

 spruce, and zvhite Hr. 



4. Botanical studies under Dr. Hein- 

 rich Schenck, president of the Darm- 

 stadt Technical University, editor of 

 "Strassburger's Botany." 



5. Forest protection, particularly 

 against fires and insects. 



6. Timber preservation — creosoting 

 railroad ties and kyanizing poles. 



7. Utilization of forest products with 

 minimum waste at sawmills and veneer 

 and furniture factories. 



