FORESTS OF JAPAN 711 



where women collected it in baskets per acre, giving a total cost of $4.05 



and carried it off on their backs. per acre for planting work. 



Planting has been carried on by the Utchimappu Minor Forest alone 



Japanese for probably a much greater plants annually 600,000 sugi and 400,000 



period than 400 years, and it is this hiba on nonrestocking cut-over land 



work that gives Japan credit for having and on treeless areas, 



practiced forestry before any other Japan has three higher schools of 



nation. As a matter of fact, however, forestry. One is connected with the 



the forests of Japan have been under Imperial University near Tokyo, one is 



real forest management less than at Morioka, and one at Sapporo, 



thirty years. Hokkaido. The Imperial University 



Large and small nurseries are scat- offers a three years graduate course 

 tered throughout the islands, and are leading to a degree corresponding to 

 kept in excellent shape. In the nur- "Bachelor of Forestry." 

 series visited sugi and hiba were the The school at Sapporo enrolls thirty 

 principal species. Sugi is the most students every year, of which about one- 

 important of the two and requires no ^^^^ enter the Government Forest Ser- 



shading. Hiba is shaded the first "^^"^^ °^ Hokkaido. 



• . 1, J- ^ o^i I he forest experiment station at 



spring with straw screens or mats. The ^t -^u •i^ii.jr^i 



f 1 . -1^4 1 J 1 Moguro m the neighborhood of Tokyo, 



stock IS grown 3 to 4 years old and ^om ises 10 acres and is 20 years old! 



transplanted once or twice. The usual j^ offers an excellent exhibition of native 



spacing m the field is 4 by 6 feet, or ^nd foreign species, model nursery, 



1,800 plants per acre. One man plants laboratory, and collections, 



from LiO to 200 per day, and at a daily The Botanical Garden in Tokyo is 



wage of 25 cents this work costs $2.70 also intensely interesting, and has odd 



per acre. The cost of the plants specimens of Japanese and foreign 



amounts to 75 cents per 1,000, or $1.35 species. 



The Meeting at San Francisco 



Great interest is manifested in the meeting of the American Forestry 

 Association at the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, Wednesday, 

 October 20, in conjunction with the Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association. 



Many members who have decided to visit the Exposition have timed 

 their trip to be able to attend the meeting. The program for the day is 

 now being arranged and will shortly be announced. It will deal chiefly 

 with western forestry problems, and with the value of the Association and 

 its work. 



Members who wish to do so can arrange to join a party which will 

 spend October 22 and 23 in the Redwood Lumber Camps. In this party 

 will be a number of forest conservationists, himbermen and loggers. 



There is a wide variety of trees in California and many of them 

 are along the general routes of tourist travel and may readily be seen. 

 American Forestry will have an article in the July issue describing these 

 and telling how best to reach them. 



