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as a connecting link between laboratory experiments and the 

 application of the results in the open, and has more than justified 

 its existence. Ten years' continuous experiment has proved that 

 dry peat is the very best manure for pine cultivation, and that 

 the established treatment for clean felled areas by the old 

 forest plough, which threw this aside, was radically wrong. 



It may be accepted that those foresters — sceptical though they 

 may have been in regard to the theoretical proof of the value of 

 this manure as explained by colloidal chemistry — who had the 

 privilege of seeing the results of the practical experiments with 

 the right and wrong method side by side will never use the 

 forest plough again. The best practical solution of the right 

 method lies in the Geist-Kaehler Wuehlgrubber. 



The experiments with the scab fungus were also shown and 

 explained. The last day was occupied by an excursion to a 

 beech forest division, and suitable discussions. 



The first conference has been a success, but the strain of six 

 days' continuous close application has been considerable, and 

 it has been suggested that the future meetings should be so 

 arranged that a Sunday falls in the midst, and also that the gist 

 of the addresses should be printed for early distribution, and 

 not as in the present instance at the opening of the conference. 



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