PERIODICAL LITERATURE 



(The war in Europe delays or entirely prevents the circulation of foreign 

 periodicals. This explains the meagerness of this department. For example, 

 this issue of the Quarterly ordinarily reviews the July, August and Sep- 

 tember numbers of the leading forestry periodicals; so far, however, only the 

 July and some of the August numbers have reached this country, and some 

 have discontinued with the July number.) 



FOREST GEOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION 



As a result of tke interesting institution 

 Swedish of the Austrian Forest Service, namely. 



Conditions annually to send a number of its forest 



and Practice officers under proper guidance to visit other 

 forest administrations and wood techno- 

 logical establishments, Janka publishes an interesting account of 

 what was seen on the excursion in 1913, describing at the same 

 time general conditions. 



A modification of the strip method of stock-taking has been intro- 

 duced in the work of ascertaining Sweden's timber and forest 

 production as a basis for the estimate. On the 32-foot strips 

 which are run every 4 km (about 2 miles) or more, all trees of 

 8 inch and more diameter are calipered; within this strip on a 

 portion 16 feet wide all trees 4 to 8 inch were also calipered, and 

 on a 3-foot (1 w) broad strip also all 2 to 4 inch trees. Further- 

 more, on limited portions of the strip, countings of the smaller 

 regeneration were made. 



For Vermland, on about 3.5 million acres, the stand was found 

 to average around 8,000 cubic feet and the growth per cent 3.5%. 

 In the description of a typical broadleaf forest property in South 

 Sweden the account of the attempts of reforesting heath lands is of 

 interest. Pine, spruce, also Picea alba and larch proved failures, 

 and finally beech was used with tolerably good results for fuel wood, 

 by plowing and underplanting the rot infested pines or by natural 

 regeneration. With prices for fuelwood ranging in the neighbor- 

 hood of $8 per cord, it is not necessary that the beech stands be 

 very good. In a typical conifer forest (pine 70%, spruce 30%) of 

 Middle Sweden the reproduction is secured by leaving single pines, 



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