128 Forestry Quarterly. 



One workman with the auger is able to prepare planting spots 

 for two setters. 



Der Spiralbohrer. Silva, October 7, 1910. Pp. 312-13. 



For many years past Prussia has been plant- 



Bought ing trees on waste land owned by the State 



vs. and at the same time trying to influence 



Homegroivn private owners to do the same. Provincial 



Plant Material. agricultural societies have also encouraged 



private planting, and a considerable increase 



in the forest area has resulted. 



In many cases plant material has been grown locally when bet- 

 ter stock could have been more cheaply secured from large nur- 

 series. Where favorable conditions of soil and labor are together 

 present homegrown plants from carefully selected seeds are pre- 

 ferable. But nurseries require a rich soil and this means the 

 continual use of fertilizers to replace the nutrients removed in the 

 young trees. And unless the necessary supply of cheap and effi- 

 cient labor is at hand the cost of home nursery may be three or 

 four fold the value of plant material secured from large nurseries. 



Ein Beitrag sum Kapitel der PHansenerziehung. Silva. July 8, 1910. 

 Pp. 209-11. 



In a very readable article with full detail 



Combating Puster describes a successful campaign 



May against Melolonta (relative of our June- 



Beetle. bug) which had for years defied all attempts 



at reforestation over a large territory. Not 

 less than 7,000 acres were involved, on which not only younger 

 and older cultures were regularly destroyed, but even old timber 

 was gradually killed by the larvae and beetles, there being from 

 100 to 300 larvae per square yard. Much money had been wasted 

 in replanting and in attempts to get rid of the pest, until it was 

 finally decided that the only salvation was in a thoroughly organ- 

 ized beetle-catching campaign. The beetles fly every four years, 

 the larvae living four years underground. By preparing bait 

 trees, which consist of single trees in the open, low and branched 

 low, of kinds preferred, oak, birch, blue beech and larch, the 

 beetles are attracted. In the early morning and in the evening 

 before the flight begins, they can be shaken from the trees into 



