Growing Locust in Hungary 



III 



Locality Class V. 



5 



lO 



15 

 20 



25 

 30 

 35 

 40 



45 

 50 



6 



64 



6.5 



19 

 29 



37 

 43 

 48 



52 

 55 

 56 

 58 

 59 



1620 

 1358 

 1162 



993 

 861 



771 

 700 



655 

 623 

 610 



/ 



Manifestly, these tables must be used with considerable care, 

 since it is evident that the data upon which they were constructed 

 are meager. Moreover, the exact value of any locality class is 

 always doubtful. 



lyocust is limited in its uses only by its size. It is rarely large 

 enough to be sawed, but in the round it is used for posts, poles, 

 scaffolding, roof beams, wagon parts, and general farm work. 

 Good logs sold in 1901 for 17 cents per cubic foot, and firewood 

 for about $7 a cord. Vine stakes 7 feet long brought $11 per 

 thousand. The woodsmen have no trouble with the thorns, either 

 in felling or in thinning ; they soon learn how to avoid them. 

 / lyocust, apparently, has come to stay in Hungary, and the 

 chief reason is that the enemies which offset its valuable qualities 

 here, are unknown there. A scale louse, Lecarium robinarium, is 

 sometimes observed on the twigs but it appears to do no harm. 

 No dangerous fungus has been observed. The late growth of the 

 shoots subjects them to damage by frost, as in this country, but 

 frozen tips occasion no great loss unless the tree be planted in a 

 situation much colder than that of the steppes. The brittleness 

 of the twigs is not a serious matter, for in pure stands they are 

 not much exposed. In short, the statement that "The Locust is 

 the tree of the future" for Hungary, seems to be well justified. 

 It ought to be quite as important here, for no other known species 

 is so well adapted to regions where planted trees are most wanted. 



Alfred Gaskill. 



