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the next fortnight this amount was increased to 70,000,000 marks, in 

 spite of the fact that another insurance company already existed. 



O. N. 



Skogsvirds Foreningens Tidskrift, August, 1916, pp. 625-8. 



A Swedish forester, by the high-sounding 

 Fresh or name of Goethe, not a professional, but having 



Stored had twenty years' experience in seed collection 



Forest Seed? and forest cultivation, defies the common idea 

 that artificially reproduced forests are of the 

 same nature as the forests secured by natural regeneration. That the 

 origin and careless handling of the seeds (as, e. g., too high tempera- 

 ture during the cleaning processes, etc.) may cause the degeneration 

 of many artificially reproduced forests is without doubt, but the length 

 of time during which the seeds were stored is of more importance. 

 Especially the quality of pines is influenced by long storage of the 

 seed. But plants and stands of spruce have been found to be of high 

 quality in spite of using old seed, even seed that had started to sprout 

 before it was sown. This claim is based on experience, both in nur- 

 series and in 10 to 15 year old stands. 



O.N. 



Skogsvirds Foreningens Tidskrift, June-July, 1916, p. 565. 



On request of the Swedish "Riksdag," a com- 



Railroad mittee was appointed to make proposals for a 



Fire Protection new forest fire protection law. This committee 



in Sweden has given special consideration to forest fires 



caused by railroads. 



Forest fire danger occurs with two maxima — one quite early in the 



spring, the other in the middle of the summer. In the spring ground 



fires occur mostly, while damage in the summer is caused by both ground 



and crown fires. 



There is nothing new in the propositions. The various known 

 methods are discussed as to their effectiveness and cost. Among these 

 there are regulations as regards patrols, spark arresters, and care in 

 stoking locomotives, as regards removal of inflammable material from 

 and near the right of way, or the establishment of protective belts or 

 varying width, according to grade, height of ballast and exposure of 



