6i6 Forestry Quarterly. 



excluded, the time during the winter being spent in logging camps. 



Prof. James B. Berry is spending a year in Germany studying 

 at Munich. His address is Barerstrasse 90/3. 



A highly interesting report is put out by the municipality of 

 Seattle, H. C. Johnson forest engineer, on the cost of stocking 

 the watershed from which the city draws its supplies. The 

 watershed comprises 59.35 square miles and is valued at present 

 at $700,000, the lower portions of which it is proposed to re- 

 stock with Douglas Fir. 



With seedspots, 6 by 6 feet, using 25 seeds to the spot, .7 of a 

 pound would be required, or $1.40 per acre, the labor varying 

 from $2.35 to $3.30, with 50 cents added for administration, bring- 

 ing the acre to $4.25 to $5.20 for different sites, as against $9 

 for broad-casting. It is figured that a crew of three men can 

 sow 2.5 to 3.5 acres per day. Planting nursery stock, on the 

 other hand, is figured at $14.87 with 1200 plants, the plants 

 costing $4.84, the hauling $1.20, the setting $8.32, and administra- 

 tion 50 cents. 



Various tables of cost under varying conditions, yield tables, 

 and financial tables add to the interest of the report. 



All told, about $8,000,000 has so far been spent in purchasing 

 forest areas in the Appalachian and White Mountains under the 

 Weeks Law. 



In the last fiscal year 711,415 acres had been examined and ap- 

 praised by the Forest Service and approved for purchase by the 

 Commission; of the acreage 100,000 acres were in the White 

 Mountains. The average price was $5.07. The annual appro- 

 priation is $2,000,000, and it is expected that next year about 

 1,200,000 acres will be added. 



Over 15,000 lbs. of tree seed and nearly 4 million trees were 

 imported from Europe into the United States last fiscal year ; in- 

 cluding material for ornamental and forest use. France fur- 

 nishes nearly twice as much as Germany of plants, but the 

 greater part of the seed came from Germany, Holland being third 

 in the plant export. 



