PKRIODICAL LITERATURIC 8fl 



tlie subject. Modern research is making us change our minds on many 

 things that we had been led to l)eheve were definitely established. 



C. D. Howe. 



Herbert Stone. The .Iscciit of ihr Sap and tlic Drying of Timber. Quart. 

 Jour. For., Oct., I'.HS, pp. 2(i 1-260. 



STATISTICS AND HISTORY 



A recent report (reprinted in full) by M. 

 Wood Proditction Dabat. Director-General of Waters and Forests, 

 After the JJ^or emphasi;:es the urgent need for the increased 

 production of saw timber. In order to relieve 

 the present situation as quickly as possible he suggests the development 

 of transportation facilities in the less accessible forests and the utiliza- 

 tion of the enormous forest resources of the French colonies. The 

 latter involves the education of consumers in regard to the technical 

 cjualities of colonial woods, standardization of nomenclature, and re- 

 vision of the tariff so that the more common colonial woods will not be 

 taxed at the same rate as the more precious ones. Measures which 

 will not yield tangible results for some time include lengthening the 

 rotation of coppice stands ; maintaining a larger number of reserves 

 in coppice under standards ; converting coppice under standards into 

 high forest; converting hardwood coppice of poor yield into conifer- 

 ous stands, particularly in mountainous regions and on poor soils ; 

 reforestation of unproductive lands; and the purchase of forests by 

 the State, communities, and public service corporations with a view 

 to managing them for the production of saw timber. 'S\. Dabat also 

 urges that the State assist private owners in the handling of their 

 forests ; that a service be created for the study of forest statistics and 

 forest economics, as well as of the technical qualities and uses of 

 native, colonial, and foreign woods ; and that forest experiment stations 

 he organized under the direction of the National School of Waters 

 and Forests. Nothing but commendation can be given to the program 

 proposed by M. Dabat. But to carry out such a program and to prac- 

 tice the intensive silviculture which it contemplates, requires men as 

 well as good intentions. It will therefore remain merely a dead letter 

 if the administration persists in its present tendency to decrease, rather 

 than to increase, the forest personnel. S. T. D. 



Anonymous. Productiou de hois aprcs querrc. Bull. Trimest. Sec. Forestiere 

 Franche-Cointt- ct Bclfort. 13 :1G2-16.-). 1020. 



