922 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



The same author quoted above, P. T. Maw, 

 Farming who is responsible for a volume entitled The 



vs. Practice of Forestry and a collection of Corn- 



Forestry plete Yield Tables for British Woodlands, gives 



his experience in managing a loo-acre farm 

 last year and comparing it with forest production. The farm was a 

 poor and mismanaged one, scattered and hence wasting labor, and 

 had not paid expenses the year before. With improved farming, good 

 seed and fertilizers a net profit of $13.70 per acre was secured the first 

 year, and more is expected as this management continues. This 

 result the author compares with an adjoining plantation of Scotch 

 pine, according to the author's yield table on site II. Seven acres of 

 oats had yielded in one season approximately $37 per acre ; the Scotch 

 pine adjoining, even with the present abnormal prices, could not at 

 4 per cent interest have yielded as much as $2. The capital to work 

 the farm was, to be sure, as much as $50 per acre, but the interest 

 earned was 29 per cent. 



The author is convinced that the greater part of the waste lands in 

 England and Wales would yield much greater profits by proper farm- 

 ing than by afiforestation. 



War-time Profits. The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, April, 1917, pp. 

 63-66. 



The mistake of basing a forest subdivision 



History upon the accidental and variable conditions of 



of stands instead of some lasting principle has been 



Forest very frequently made in Switzerland, rendering 



Subdivision many changes necessary when the revision of 



the working plans comes around. 



The anonymous author traces the history of the development of 



forest division in Germany and Switzerland. The first division into 



simple annual felling areas is reported for the Erfurt city forest in 



the fourteenth century, and this method became quite general. In 



France, Colbert introduced the system in 1669, and Frederick the Great 



around 1740 had all the Prussian forests divided into 70 annual felling 



areas, probably in imitation of the French practice. A proportional 



size of areas to take care of varying sites and quality of stands was 



introduced in 1741 in the Goettingen city forest, and later in some of 



the Prussian forests. It appears that before this time, around 1669, 



