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Danish Fukkst Experiment Station 



In 1883 there was established in Denmark a section for research in 

 forestry, as a branch of the office for the management of State forests. 

 This arrangement contiiuied down to 1901, when the Minister of Agri- 

 culture organized the station for forestry research. The management 

 is in the hands of a chief of station, in conjunction with a commission 

 of two representatives of the forest administration, two representatives 

 of private forestry, and one representative of forest instruction. The 

 members of the commission are nominated by the Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture except those representing private forestry who, in the first instance, 

 are proposed by the directing council of the forest society. The chief 

 of station is a permanent member of the commission and acts as presi- 

 dent ; he also acts as editor and is responsible for the accounts. With 

 regard to the other members of the commission, one member must be 

 re-elected every two years. The commission meets once yearly at least. 

 It settles the plan of work for the coming session and draws up the 

 budget. It reports upon the work of the preceding session. It has the 

 power to entrust the direction or execution of a piece of work to a 

 person other than the station chief, although in case where the nature 

 of the work demands continuity it shall be the station chief who has 

 preference. The commission may consult technical men and invite 

 them, if necessary, to attend their sittings, in case where they are 

 deemed specially competent to deal with some special question. The 

 station for forest research now has its oflfice at Copenhagen, near the 

 higher school of agriculture, and its experimental nursery (13^ acres) 

 at 1 legelund, 35 kilometers from Copenhagen. Tliis latter possesses a 

 little wooden building containing the workmen's (|uarters and an office. 

 I'p to the present tiie station has publi.shed four volumes ( 1905-1915') 

 of reports, beginning with the fourth volume, the reports, j^rinted in 

 Danish, are accompanied ])y summaries in luiglisli, I'Vench. and Ger- 

 man. The following is a list of subjects dealt with up to the ])resent : 

 (irowth and yield of forest trees; trials of foreign species: rescarclies 

 on forests soils, and particularly the forms of hunuis and soil biology: 

 mechanical and chemical analyses combined with trials on the api^lica- 

 tion of artificial fertilizers to spruce. Scots ])ine. fir, and oak in heath 

 soils; the action of storms on forest trees: races and forms of forest 

 trees: control of diseases of forest trees: management, thinning, and 

 rei)opulating of beech: mamifacture aiul (.-mployment of wood for join- 

 erv and fuel : easv and economic methods of mensuration of timber. — 

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