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ation slowly in strips, with conifers from north to south, with 

 broad-leaf species from northwest to southeast, treating each 

 strip in selection method with regard to the need of the young 

 growth, removing the old growth when the regeneration is knee 

 high; and planting up fail places or to secure a mixture. The 

 method is mainly applied to spruce and pine. 



The resume is that in the locality referred to the method has 

 been successful, although "the condition of the strips is very 

 variable according to soil, age and exposure," the regeneration 

 was found very ample and on north sides on better soils ideal, 

 but also good on other soils and exposures. 



Of course, the method is not applicable everywhere. Where 

 climatic and soil conditions are favorable and appropriately 

 mixed stands exist, and a well considered road system and market 

 for small material permitting the many small felling areas, and 

 small districts under competent managers are involved — there it is 

 a first class method. 



Der Wagner'sche Plentcrsaumhetrieh, etc. Allgemeine Forst- u. Jagd- 

 zeitung. April, 1911, pp. 113-118. 



Further experience in the use of Splett- 

 Perfection stosser's new planting tool described in F. 



in Q. vol. VII, p. 467, and also referred to in 



Planting. vol. VIII, p. 504, sustains the enthusiastic 



dictum of Dr. Moeller, director of the 

 Forest Academy at Eberswalde, that it is unquestionably techni- 

 cally perfect and approaches as near as possible the ideal of pine 

 planting. Its most significant advantage is the cheapness of its 

 work. 



Kranold records in tabular detail the experience in 74 plan- 

 tations made in 1910 in West Prussia, comprising about 1,900 

 acres on old forest soil, and over 2,000 acres on waste lands. 

 The cost of these plantations, including plants and every outlay 

 varied between $2.20 and $8.50 per acre, most of them having 

 been spaced 1.3X.5 to .8 meter i. e. 4,000 to 6,000 plants per acre. 

 The making of holes and setting of plants varied between 21 

 cents and $1.23 per M plants, wages being for men 43 cents, for 

 women 28 cents, for boys 24 cents. (Considering the higher 

 wages but the greater efficiency of American male labor this cost 



