German Seed-Extracting Bstablishuient. 27 



gives in detail the plans and methods of operating a seed-extract- 

 ing plant for Scotch pine, in short, his ideas of a model seed- 

 extracting establishment for pine seed. For his purpose he cites 

 the successes and failures that have attended the operation of the 

 plant at Eberswalde where numerous experiments have been con- 

 ducted to determine doubtful points. 

 Wiebecke's article is as follows : 



/. Location of the Seed-extracting House. 



1. If one is at liberty to determine the location of a seed- 

 txtracting house which is to be built, it is recommended to place 

 it at a concentration point of the greatest possible accessibility, 

 a point from which roads radiate connecting the forests and in the 

 vicinity of railroad stations leading to it. The yard, etc., about 

 the seed-extracting house is by all means to be paved (for easier 

 approach in soft weather). 



The location far from a railroad of the Eberswalde seed- 

 extracting house, which also lies at a distance from the main 

 road, causes excessive transportation costs, which I can show to 

 be 4 cents (.15 marks) per 2.2 pounds of seed (i kg.). 



2. The seed-extracting house must be located upon an open 

 flat, exposed to sun and wind, — so much the better to dry the 

 cones in the shed ; the smoke bothers no neighbors and neighbor- 

 ing fire danger is avoided. 



3. The seed-house manager (in the case of larger seed-extract- 

 ing houses the seed-house secretary) must invariably live nearby, 

 as well as the seed-house foreman ; the purchasing of cones 

 must go on at every hour of the day, for the sake of an abundant 

 supply at all times ; the seed-house business itself requires con- 

 stant supervision day and night from a reliable foreman. 



//. The Cone-shed. 



Large high sheds located within the forest wherever possible 

 and in open places, with solid or close-jointed board walls are 

 the suitable thing. Bins constructed contiguous to one another 

 if possible, of a size 10 x 10 x 10 = 1000 cubic feet = 770 

 bushels of cones (270 hi.) to the bin, are the proper thing in this 

 shed. 



Cones gathered in December, or better still in January and the 



