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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



and Southern Appa- 

 lachians in North Car- 

 olina; summer, Ten- 

 nessee; fall, Wisconsin 

 and Michigan. 



The excursion to Ger- 

 many affords a chance 

 for scientific s t u d v 

 along the following- 

 lines : 



AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old, 33 inches diameter, Trippstadt, Germany 



forestry is found in central and south- 

 ern Germany, but for practical work in 

 timber cruising, road, bridge, and rail- 

 road building, logging and milling, the 

 Southern Appalachians and the forests 

 of the Lake States of the United States 



The 



I. Forest manage- 

 ment, varying accord- 

 ing to ownership (state, 

 communal, and pri- 

 vate), and according to 

 type - - pineries of the 

 Rhine Valley, primeval 

 white oak of the Spes- 

 sart Mountains, hard- 

 woods of the Oden- 

 \vald. and spruce and 

 silver fir of the Black 

 Forest. 



2. Silviculture nurs- 

 eries, reforestation, un- 

 derplanting, thinnings. 

 3. The classification 

 and distribution of the 

 forest trees of the 

 United States. GER- 

 MANY lias the world's 

 best experimental plots 

 of American forest trees 

 and the world's oldest 

 forest plantations of a 

 variety of Aiuerieau 

 trees, notably of white. 

 fine, Douglas fir, se- 

 quoia, wtestern yellozu 

 pine, Port Oxford ce- 

 dar, yellow cedar, west- 

 ern red cedar, Sitka 

 spruce, and white fir. 

 4. Botanical studies under Dr. Hem- 



rich Schenck, president of the Darm- 



stadt Technical University, editor of 



"Strassburger's Botany." 



5. Forest protection, particularly 



against fires and insects. 



form desirable working fields. me 6 Timber pres ervation-creosoting 



Biltmore rorest School is seeking these ., . L . , , , 



different sites adapted to the study of railroad ties and kyanizing poles, 



each branch of forestry, having a new 7- Utilization of forest products with 



working field each season of the year- minimum waste at sawmills and veneer 



winter, Germany; spring, Adirondacks, and furniture factories. 



