AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old ; natural seed regeneration ; Trippstadt, Germany 



The stiimpage price of White pine is 

 higher than that of any of the native 

 species, as shown h}- tlic i)ricc schcthile 

 below : 



seedhngs were outplanted per acre at 

 an expense of $10.60. Subsequent syl- 

 vicultural treatment cost $14.28 per 

 acre. In 1908, the stand was fifty cords 



Diameter at middle of log, inside the bark 



Less 



2o"-24" i6"-20" i2"-i6" io"-i2" than 10" 



White Pine, per M $49.00 $37-00 $30.50 $21.50 $12.50 



Scotch Pine, per M 26.(X) 23.00 22,00 18.00 14.00 



Larch, per M 30.00 27.00 26.00 21.00 14.00 



Spruce, per M 25.00 23.00 20.00 16.00 



Fir, per M 27.00 22.00 19.00 14.00 



The annual sustained yield on the per acre. From 1903 to 1908, the av- 



10,000 acres of Trippstadt forest erage annual growth was three and 



amounts to 2,280,000 board-feet, the eight-tenths cords per acre (cords of 



larger part of which consists of Scotch 128 cubic feet, containing eighty-five 



pine and spruce. cubic feet of solid wood). A thinning 



2. Near Konig, in the Odenwald, the of two and eight-tenths cords per acre 

 white pines introduced 120 years ago in 1903 netted $3.50 per acre. II- 

 by the Hessians who went to America lustration No. 5 shows the density of 

 to visit George Washington, have be- the stand, the unifonuity of growth, 

 come twenty-two inches to thirty-four and the clearness of the boles after 

 inches in diameter, breast-high. (See pruning. 



illustration No. 4.) 4. An excellent stand of White pine 



3. In Heidelberg Forest, experi- fifty-five years old is found near Iseii- 

 mental plots of wdiite pine and other burg, south of Frankfurt, in the delta 

 American conifers were started in 1887- region of the Rhine and Main rivers, 

 1888 ; 2,735 two-year-old White pine wdiere conifers form twent3'-four per 



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