no Forestry Quarterly. 



from damage, and greater adaptability to future market condi- 

 tions. 



Summarizing, the author would point out the danger of over 

 emphasizing the defects of extensive, cheaply administered meth- 

 ods of handling pure stands by cutting clean and planting during 

 the present admiration for more intensive silviculture. 



K. W. W. 



GrossfBchenwirtschaft und Kleinfldchenimrtschaft. Forstwissenschaft- 

 liches Centralblatt, Aug., 1913, pp. 401-412. 



Paul Buffault gives an interesting ac- 

 Reforestation count of the forestation on the federal for- 

 m est of Vierzon, based on a study of the 



France. work executed since the year 1670 when 



the forest comprised 294 acres of brush 

 and openings, and 7,670 acres "entirely ruined and devastated 

 either by fires or by the grazing of ordinary stock and sheep." At 

 this time 89 per cent of the forest area was unproductive. In 

 1779, the openings only amounted to 3,358 acres, or 25.6 per cent 

 of the entire area. In 1859, the blanks had increased to 4,077 

 acres, owing to faulty working plans. In 1879, with the excep- 

 tion of 741 acres burned over, the blanks had practically disap- 

 peared. This was the situation at time of the disastrous win- 

 ter of 1879-80 when 2,362 acres of Maritime Pine reforestation 

 was destroyed by frost. These openings were increased by the 

 burning of 1,591 acres. In 1890, there remained about 2,718 

 acres to restock. From 1891 to 1904, 2,157 acres were re- 

 stocked. During this period the total expense was on an aver- 

 age of $23.56 per ha. or $9 per acre forested. The writer gives' 

 in detail an account of the reasons for the failures which may 

 be summarized as follows: Crowding b}- undergrowth, poor 

 quality seed and drouth, rabbits, fire and lack of drainage. Of 

 these causes for poor success in sowing, heather and imder- 

 brush were the most disastrous. The plantations during the per- 

 iod 1891-1904 covered 2,179 acres of which 1,326 was new work. 

 The average success was 50 per cent for new plantations and 

 37.7 per cent for the maintenance of old plantations. The aver- 

 age expense here was $5.64 per acre forested, or about one half 

 of the cost of sowing. But the average cost of plantations for 

 the entire forest has* been about $7 per acre ; this figure would 



