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increment of the injured trees in 1914 had suddenly fallen to less than 

 half that of 1913, namely, from 4 cm. to 1.9 cm., while the check trees 

 had fallen from 4.1 cm. to 3.3 cm. The volume increment, then, was 

 only 25 per cent of that of 1913. In single trees greater differences 

 were found, namely, down to 4 per cent of the previous year. 



Dtirch Hagelschlag verursachter Zuwachsverlust in einem Fichtenstangenhoh. 

 Schweizerische Zeitschrift fiir Forstwesen, December, 1917, pp. 329-333. 



Samuel N. Spring, in a most readable article. 



Forestry tells of the historic "Axton Conference," August 



in the 31, 1917, reported in the November number (pp. 



Adirondacks 891-895). He tells how the trip came to be made 



and how "Dr. Fernow was the center of the group 



all day, happy as a boy on vacation and eager to see his handiwork 



after the lapse of fifteen or more years." 



Touching on the Adirondack forestry problem, the author says : 

 "The problem was the management of a decadent hardwood forest 

 from which the softwoods had already been logged. For the logging 

 areas the treatment was, in the Doctor's own words : 'Removal of the 

 hardwoods except thrifty young growth, preferably in groups, burning 

 brush (from tops), and planting with conifers, especially white pine 

 and Norway spruce.' 



"Follow the party into a typical logging area so treated. Passing 

 through a strip of timber by the road, Dr. Fernow led the way into a 

 young forest showing no traces of logging, containing a fine growth of 

 planted pines and spruces mingled with hardwoods that have seeded 

 into the stand naturally. The future value and the present value can- 

 not be questioned. Pine and spruce are alike at home and vigorous in 

 growth ; the soil is protected and the full usefulness of this forest land 

 assured. In contrast one need only to view land cut over and burned 

 in the Adirondacks or to see an experiment across the road, where the 

 timber was logged, the brush burned, and the rest left to nature. There 

 the stand is open and inadequate, the species generally inferior." 



He ends with the interesting observation that of the various species 

 planted "European larch overtopped all. . . . Species from the 

 West, planted experimentally, interested the foresters greatly, but the 

 species deserving the blue ribbon were our native white pine and the 

 introduced Scotch pine and Norway spruce." 



A. B. R. 



Seeing Forestry IVork in the Adirondacks. Lumber World Review, Novem- 

 ber 10, 1917. 



