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graziers willing to comply with conditions which will insure that the 

 trees will have reasonable treatment — for the present, casuarinas. kur- 

 rajong, carob-bean, tree lucerne, and native salt-bush. 

 The commissioners offer — 



1. To supply without charge sufficient fodder seedlings to plant, 20 

 feet apart, an area or areas of from one acre to ten acres. The plants 

 will be selected from the forest nurseries in dift"erent parts of the State 

 and forwarded by train to the railway station most convenient to the 

 applicant. 



2. To direct, supervise, and give advice regarding the planting and 

 subsequent care of the plantations. 



3. To set aside a sum of not less than £150 to be expended every 

 three years in prizes for the best fodder plantations established under 

 this scheme in the central and western districts of New South Wales. 



In return the\ require that the participant fuffill the following con- 

 ditions : 



1. To pay the cost of carrying by rail of the plants. 



2. To plow the site for planting to as great a depth as possible, ready 

 for the reception of the plants. 



3. To inclose the plantation securely with stock and vermin-proof 

 fencing. 



4. To. provide the cultivation and regular attention essential to the 

 proper growth of the trees. 



5. To take adequate precautions to protect the plantation against 

 damage by fire. 



In 1912 a number of sample plots were established on cutting areas 

 in various types throughout the National Forests of California. These 

 plots were remeasured in 191 7 and the data have now been compiled. 

 They show that the rate of growth in the Jeffrey pine type on the entire 

 eastern slope of the Sierra Nevadas is so low that profitable forest 

 management from a purely monetary standpoint appears to be entirely 

 out of the question, while on the west slope a rate of interest expressed 

 as volume growth percentage as high as 5 or 6 per cent per annum now 

 appears obtainable on the yellow-pine and sugar-pine sites. The early 

 marking in this district contemplated a second cut in from thirty to 

 fifty vears. As a result of the remeasurement of these plots. District 5 

 officers are now of the opinion that on the eastern side of the Sierras 

 clear cutting should have been practiced, without thought of a second 

 harvest, until the young growth had matured. On the west slope it is 

 evident that the second-cut idea can be carried out, and that the system 

 of marking practiced five or six years ago cannot be improved upon to 



