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1. All trees felled and not removed by April 1 should be 



barked. The bark should be removed from the whole 

 length of the bole and main branches and burned with 

 the top and small wood. 



2. All trees felled during April and subsequently which are 



not removed within one month of felling should be barked, 

 and the bark burned with the tops and small branchwood. 



3. All refuse (branchwood down to 12 inches girth) remaining 



on the felling area after April, which is not removed 

 within one month, should be burned. 



The remedial measures suggested include the removal and 

 burning of dead, dying and freshly attacked trees, removal of 

 bark where beetles have laid their eggs, the treatment repeated 

 again after a fortnight to ascertain if damaged trees have been 

 overlooked. T. S. W., Jr. 



The Indian Forester, September, 1915, pp. 317-325, 



MENSURATION, FINANCE, AND MANAGEMENT 



A work based on over 40 years of inves- 

 Spruce tigation and observation. Dr. von Gutten- 



in berg's "Growth and Yield of Spruce in the 



Higher Alps," is of special value in bringing out 



Altitudes laws of growth in the mountain country ; 



moreover an unusual number of measure- 

 ments lies at their basis, namely 220 sample areas within a 

 limited territory and about 160 careful stem analyses. The latter 

 cover considerable space in the volume and perhaps are the most 

 valuable part of the work in exhibiting laws of growth. 



While the chapter on the development of the single stem is 

 complete and may be considered basic, the same can hardly be 

 said for the second chapter on the development of the stand, the 

 data for which were secured by only single measurements of the 

 stands, and relying largely on stem analysis. These tables, there- 

 fore, can be considered only preliminary, but in the absence of 

 similar tables for such a growth region nevertheless valuable. 



The site classification into five classes was made entirely upon 

 the basis of height, since as regards volume the greatest variety 

 was encountered ; on apparently the same site here a dense regen- 

 eration, there an open stand, the two with entirely different 



