Growing Locust in Hungary 



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well," and thorough cultivation is now the rule until the trees 

 are established. When that is done they require only ordinary 

 care. Stock is commonly allowed in plantations that are well 

 grown, for the light crowns of the trees always permit a good 

 growth of grass beneath them. 



Most of these plantations are still too young to furnish con- 

 clusive figures of growth and yield, yet some are being cut every 

 year, and data of value are accumulating. As a rule, the rotation 

 for seedling stands is thirty years, and for sprout stands fifteen 

 years. Either produces salable material that will average 1,900 

 cubic feet per acre, while the maximum may reach 6,300 

 cubic feet. Single stems often are 12 inches in diameter and 

 fairly straight for 30 or even 40 feet. Older growths almost in- 

 variably show a falling off in the rate of accretion and hence are 

 less profitable. 



Oberforster Kallivoda kindly allowed me to look over his books 

 and take from them the following figures : 



Stand of Seedwng Locust on Sample Plots of one acre.* 



Poor 



30 



288 



3-0 



Stand of Second-growth Locust on Sample Plots of one acre.* 



The chief value of these figures lies in the proof of quick ma- 

 turity in the second-growth stands when compared with those 

 produced from seeds. In explanation of the apparently slow 

 growth of both sprouts and seedlings, it must be remembered 

 that the best soil devoted to plantations is very poor from an ag- 



*The Hungarian unit of area is the joch=i^ acres. 



