Silvicultural Practice. 109 



A number of special forms of silvicultural manage- 

 ment applicable under' special conditions have been 

 locally developed, without, however, gaining much 

 ground and being mainly of historical value. Among 

 these may be mentioned Seebach's Modified Beech 

 Forest, which consists in opening up a beech stand so 

 as to secure regeneration, merely to form a soil cover, 

 leaving enough of the old stand on the ground to 

 close up in thirty or forty years. By this treatment 

 the large increment due to open position is secured 

 without endangering the soil. Similarly the Storied 

 or Two-aged High forest, was applied to the manage- 

 ment of oak forest in mixture with beech. In a few 

 localities also, on limited areas, a combination of 

 forest and farming (Waldfeldbau) has been continued 

 and elaborated, besides the more general use of coppice 

 and coppice with standards. 



According to the statistics for 1900 the following dis- 

 tribution of the acreage under different silvicultural 

 methods prevailed throughout the empire: 



Deciduous Coniferous 



Per cent. Per cent. 



Total Forest 32.5 67.5 



High Forest 18.4 60.1 



Selection Forest 2.3 7.4 



Coppice 6.8 



Coppice with standards . . 5. 



Coniferous forest, of which 68% is pine and 30% 

 spruce, prevails in Eastern and Middle Germany, de- 

 ciduous forest, of which 20% is oak, the balance 

 principally beech, in the West and South. 



