318 Denmark. 



will have to be reduced, and the import of wood and 

 woodenware increased. 



Artificial reproduction is the most general silvicul- 

 tural practice except in the beech forest which is re- 

 produced naturally after preparation of the soil and 

 sowing acorns for admixture at the same time, spend- 

 ing altogether $12 to $15 per acre in this preparation. 

 Since 1880, thinnings have been based on the idea 

 of favoring final harvest trees somewhat after the 

 French fashion; they are begun in the twentieth to 

 thirtieth year and are repeated every three years, 

 aided by pruning. Then in each subsequent decade 

 the return occurs in as many years as the decade has 

 tens. Especially in the direction of thinnings, the 

 German practice and even theory is outdone, the 

 thinnings being made severer and recurring more 

 frequently. 



More than a hundred years ago the State began the 

 reclamation work of the dunes and heaths, but it pro- 

 gressed more actively only since the sixties of last 

 century as a result of legislation had in 1857. In 

 1867, a special Dune Department was instituted, and 

 through the effort of a State engineer, Capt. Dalgas, 

 an association was formed for the reclamation of 

 heaths and moors. A small subvention of $600 started 

 the work of the association, in its useful campaign under 

 the advice of Staats planteur (State forest planter) 

 Jensen Tusch. The State subvention now amounts 

 to about forty thousand dollars annually, and the 

 success of the association has been such that it has 

 become almost a fad for large land owners and others 



