1044 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



fertilizers in forest, fruit, and vegetable culture, lime nitrogen, the agricultural 

 importance of the crow, the role of light in forests, and the culture of larches. 



Annual report on the literature and important happenings in the realm 

 of forestry relative to forestry zoology, agricultural chemistry, meteorology 

 and forest botany for the year 1906, K. Wimmenauer (AUg. Forst u. Jagd 

 Ztg., 1907, Sup., PI). 100). — This report consists of abstracts of forest literature, 

 together with notes on important occurrences iu the forest world for the year 

 1906. Among the subjects treated are forest sylviculture, utilization, manage- 

 ment, valuation, and statics, the theory of forest mensuration and yields, forest 

 administration, history, policy, statistics, news of forest unions and hunting 

 clubs, forest zoology, botany, and soil physics. 



Annual report of the forester, 1907, A. F. IIawes {Connecticut State Sia. 

 Rpt. 1907-S, pt. .'/, pp. 211-21)5, plf;. 6, map /). — In 1901 the station inaugui-ated 

 a series of forest planting experiments at Windsor, some of which have been 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 19, p. 241). Several of the earlier experiments 

 have been discontinued and new plantings established. The various experi- 

 ments, 95 in all, are described, further grouped according to species tested, and 

 the results suunnarized. 



An account is also given of recent plantations made throughout Connecticut 

 by the State, water companies, educational institutions, and private individuals, 

 together with brief accounts of old forest plantations in Connecticut and 

 tabular data secured from sample sections of the same relative to diameter and 

 volume measurements, number of dead and living trees per acre, and estimated 

 values. The text concludes with normal yield tables for Scotch pine, Norway 

 spruce, and beech taken from H. S. Grave's Foi'est Mensuration (E. S. R., 

 18, p. 340). 



As a result of the experimental plantations at Windsor and elsewhere, white, 

 Scotch, Norway, and pitch pines are recommended as the best conifers, and 

 chestnut, red oak, and black locust as the best deciduous trees adapted for 

 planting on sandy land. Relative to ])lanting material it is recommended that 

 with pines 3-year-old transplants be used when they can be procured for $5.50 

 per thousand or less, otherwise 2-year-old ti-ansplants or seedlings may be used 

 satisfactorily. With chestnut, black locust, and red oak 1-year-old seedlings 

 are recommended, although acorns may be used for red oak. 



It has been found that fairly open land can l)e jtlanted with 2-year-old i>ines 

 with mattocks at $1.70 per thousand trees. Where plantations were seriously 

 threatened by field and forest fires i)roper supervision and fire alarms furnished 

 adequate protection. From the studies of the older plantations of white pine 

 it is believed that with a reasonable expenditure for purchase of land and 

 planting at least 5 per cent compound interest may be made from such invest- 

 ments, figuring the value of lumber at present prices. 



Report of the State forester, A. Akerman and F. W. Rane (Agr. of Mass- 

 1906, pp. 307-328). — An outline is given of the forestry work conducted during 

 1906, together with a series of volume tables for white pine in Massachusetts 

 prepared with the assistance of the Forest Service of this Department. The 

 tables give the average volume of individual white pine trees at different 

 diameters and heights, and have been prepared to conform with the standard 

 units employed iu measuring the contents of logs and trees in ]\Iassacluisetts. 

 A plea is made for the regulation of forest taxation, the establishment of State 

 forest reserves, and the improvement of the forest fire protection. 



Fourth annual report of the State forester of Massachusetts, F. W. Rane 

 {Ann. Rpt. State Forester Mass., 4 {1907), pp. .}.?, pJs. '/). — An outline of forest 

 operations for 1907, including a financial statement, is given, with lists of pub- 

 lications issued, lectures delivered, plants and seedlings distributed, notes on 



