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Anton von Buhler 



With Professor Anton von Buhler, who died on January 1, 1920, 

 there passed one of the last of the great leaders of the German for- 

 estry profession during the past three decades. Born in 18-i8, in 

 Wiirttemberg, the son of a forester, he was educated at the Forest 

 Academy, Hohenheim, and University of Tiibingen. After several 

 years as assistant at the Hohenheim Forest Experiment Station and 

 three years in charge of a forest unit, in 1882 he became Professor 

 of Forestry at the Polytechnicum in Ziirich, where he took the lead 

 in building up Swiss forest research. In 1896 he was called to Tiibin- 

 gen, where he remained in active duty until 1919, teaching silviculture, 

 forest utilization, forest policy, and forest history, and since 1902 in 

 charge of forest research. His great contribution was to forest re- 

 search, and he has even been called the founder of this branch of the 

 profession. His work culminated in the well-known treatise "Wald- 

 bau" (Silviculture) which is a standard work on the subject. "His 

 peculiar acquaintance with forest literature, even to the earliest times, 

 convinced him that there is scarcely a theory which has not been ad- 

 vanced already, scarcely a method which has not already been applied." 



Broadcasting Slash Pine Seed 



Good results are reported from experiments in broadcasting slash 

 pine seed, conducted by the Forest Service in co-operation with the 

 State Agricultural College near Summerville, S. C. A series of 18 

 small-sized sample plots was sown in the fall of 1917 and a duplicate 

 series in the following spring. These included a wide variety of con- 

 ditions in regard to soil, moisture, ground cover, and methods of 

 sowing. 



The most interesting results are the very satisfactory stands of young 

 trees obtained from broadcasting seed in heavy grass. At the end of 

 two years the fall sowings have given G,53 4 seedlings per acre, with 

 no treatment after broadcasting, and 20,909 seedlings per acre where 

 the grass was harrowed following the sowing. The seed was sown 



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