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'Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ic)20. 



PRESENT CONDITIONS IN 

 GERMANY. 



In a letter to an American friend, 

 Dr. Schenck, former head of the 

 Biltmore Forest School. North Caro- 

 lina, gives an interesting sketch of 

 economic conditions in Germany at 

 present : 



Doctor Schenck declares that "Ger- 

 man forests continue an A-i asset. 

 Our forest policy has been a con- 

 servative one. as you know. It reaps 

 today what it has planted, ^^'cre it 

 not for our forests the coal situation 

 would be critical in the extreme. 

 There is no coal whatsoever to be 

 had for my house at Darmstadt: here 

 in Lindenfels I have wood and some 

 coke, enough for the time being. 



"We require better economic con- 

 ditions, safer than those now prevail- 

 ing with reference to food and living. 

 If our crops fail in 1920 there will be 

 a disaster, a catastrophe by which 

 the Black Plague of London is a mil- 

 lion times repeated. Unfortunately, 

 chances for reasonably good crops 

 are few, and slight. There is no sugar 

 to be had today ; not an e^^ for the 

 sick ; no meat, of course — excent for 

 the rich and the very rich. Wage^ 

 are high, but you cannot buy that 

 thing for a stiff ])rice which is not 

 in any market. 



"Our present forest policy con- 

 tinues to be conservative — much too 

 conservative for me. If there were 

 ever a time to empty a saving's box, 

 that day has now arrived. Where 

 the forests stand on farm soil they 

 might well be converted into farms, 

 although the authorities do not seem 

 to approve of the change. Many of 

 our forests might be thinned out 

 twice as heavily as is customary, but 

 the forester does not care to abandon 

 the old practices. 



DYNAMITE REJUVENATES A 

 TREE. 



Mr. P. L. Neel. of Philadelphia, 

 purchased a place in ^Terion, Pa., 

 which was vacant for about five 

 vears, heavily overgrown with grass 

 and in bad shape. The grass was 

 cut and all the dead wood removed 

 from the beautiful shade trees. All 



the rotten cavities were cleaned out. 

 waterproofed and then filled with 

 waterproof cement, guy wires and 

 Ixjlts l)eing used when necessary. 



The question was how to most 

 readily feed the roots of these trees 

 so that the greatest results could be 

 obtained in the shortest possible time. 

 Realizing that if they were simply 

 manured on the top of the ground and 

 the rain allowed to act thereon, a 

 great part of the nutrient qualities of 

 the fertilizer would run off on the 

 surface and simply Ijc absorbed by 

 the grass and upper strata of earth, 

 the following method was suggested : 



Dig a ditch at the tips of the 

 branches al^jut two feet wide and 

 three feet deep, filling the ditch with 

 alternate layers of composted manure, 

 that is, a layer of manure on a layer 

 of dirt and so on. However, it was 

 further suggested that if the ground 

 could be loosened up and manure 

 l)laced on the top of the ground, this 

 costly work could be avoided. 



The most inexpensive, efficient and 

 ]:)ractical way of doing this was by 

 ])utting charges of one half stick of 



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