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log. or ill ihe half log. The British timber merchant upon receipt of 

 the logs would saw them in his own mill, carefully keeping all boards 

 together from one log. The Russian oak, being beautifully grained, 

 was in great demand by furniture manufacturers for making entire 

 suites from one log, and by keeping all the boards from one log 

 together, it was possible to match closely the grain and to have the '^uite 

 uniform. The log is reassembled after sawing, the boards placed in 

 their former relative positions in the log. and when placed in the yard 

 for seasoning have thin strips of wood between each board, and an 

 iron band nailed over the edge of each board (on end of log) to prevent 

 any possible shifting of boards. This care is rewarded by a fancy 

 price received from cabinet makers. J. D. O, 



Care of Russian Oak by British Timber Dealers. American Lvunherman, 

 November 22, 1919, p. 66. 



The forests of Alsace-Lorraine cover IIo.-I.jI 

 Forestry liectares, of which 138,869 hectares belong to the 



and the Wood State. The total annual cut of wood is about 

 Industry in 2,000,000 cubic meters. Under the former 



Alsace-Lorraine French control the forests were managed mostly 

 on the selection system, transportation was not 

 developed, and timber was sold on the stump, so that there was a 

 tendency toward monopoly of each unit and lower prices for stumpage 

 than the market justified. The Germans changed this by selling the 

 logs, with the result that there were more bidders and better prices, 

 and numerous local wood-using industries sprang up near the forests. 

 Roads were developed. A high-forest system, with reproduction cut- 

 tings, was substituted for the selection system except in the higher 

 Vosges. Spruce and pine, and recently larch a-nd Douglas fir have 

 been introduced in the predominant silver fir stands. Two hundred 

 and fifty thousand hectares, three-fourths of it in Alsace, are managed 

 as high forest; loOjOOO hectares as coppice-with-standards, and small 

 areas as coppice, tanbark forest, etc. Of the high forest, one-third is 

 silver fir. nearly one-third beech, one-sixth pine, and one-eighth oak. 

 Fir predominates in the Vosges, while pine is in the valleys and foot- 

 hills ; beech is most abundant in the foothills, and oak often predom- 

 inates in the lowlands. The forests of the Lotharingian plateau are 

 alnujst exclusively hardwoods. The fir grows rapidly, yielding i\\G 

 cubic meters per hectare per year, and can yield seven cubic meters 

 if thinned properly. The wood is used for local needs and the surplus 



