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Methods.* Wagner's idea, that the present clear cutting methods 

 are the ruination of the forest, he could not accept. Undoubtedly 

 the mixture of tolerant and intolerant species is desirable. For 

 Scotch pine this means chiefly spruce and blue beech which can 

 be secured either naturally or artificially under present cutting 

 methods. 



Oberforstmeister Koenig opposed the introduction of Wagner's 

 method with Scotch pine chiefly on the ground of its incompata- 

 bility \\dth the present arrangement of the age classes in large 

 areas of even-aged stands. Forstrat Trebeljahr spoke in favor of 

 Wagner's system in Scotch pine, and urged experiments therewith 

 on an extended scale. 



A. B. R. 



Allgemeine Forst- und Jagd-Zeitung, October, 1914, pp. 332-334. 



MENSURATION, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT 



An interesting detailed statement of a 

 Forest forest valuation by Gartner referring to the 



Valuation indemnity to be paid to the municipality of 



in Germany Bad Orb (near Cassel in Western Germany) 

 for part of its city forest, about 3,000 acres, 

 gives an insight into forest values in Germany. The forest was 

 to be turned over to the military authorities for a drill groimd. 

 The valuation for the city made the total indemnity $896,220, 

 aroimd $300 per acre, while the valuator for the miltary depart- 

 ment made it only about $165, and the compromise value arrived at 

 by two other valuators on an area reduced to nearly one-half was 

 made $240 per acre. 



The forest consisted of oak, imder 100-year rotation; beech, 

 under 90-year rotation; pine and spruce stands, both under 70-year 

 rotation. 



The interest rate used in the expectancy calculations was 2.5 

 per cent, for beech and oak, 3 per cent, for pine, and 3.5 per cent, 

 for spruce, which are rates by about one-half per cent, higher than 

 usually applied, hence giving conservative capital values. 



The actual cultivation costs of the last 10 years with $20 to $25 

 were considered abnormally high, and hence for most stands normal 



* See "Management of Pine in Prussia," Forestry Quarterly, Vol. XI, 

 No. 2, pp. 135-143. 



