AMERICANS IN THE FORESTS OF GERMANY 



8. Forest economics ; 

 a study of the condi- 

 tions, economic, social, 

 and political, under 

 which conservative for- 

 estry is more remunera- 

 tive than destructive 

 forestry. 



9. Fish and game 

 course, supplemented by 

 visits to the hatcheries 

 at Baden-Baden and 

 the zoological gardens 

 and museums at Frank- 

 fort and Darmstadt. 



10. American export 

 lumber trade with Ger- 

 many. 



The achievement of 

 seeing the best forests 

 in Germany in only four 

 months has been due 

 primarily to the lead- 

 ership of Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck, who studied at 

 the German universities 

 twenty years ago, be- 

 came familiar with Ger- 

 man forestry under 

 Doctor Brandis, acted as 

 forester to the 125,000- 

 acre Biltmore estate in 

 North Carolina four- 

 teen years, founded the 

 first American forestry 

 school twelve years ago, 

 and now holds the hon- 

 orary rank of Ober- 

 foerster in Hesse Darm- 

 stadt. 



The local German foresters have been 

 glad to guide the Americans and ex- 

 plain the history and management of 

 their districts. The experience of a 

 score of the best foresters in Ger- 

 many has been at the disposal of the 

 school. The German forester knows 

 not only his native species, but also 

 the trees of the world, particularly those 

 of the United States. To illustrate this 

 fact, a brief description of some of the 

 stands of American white pine vis- 

 ited by the Americans is given below : 



AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old, Trippstadt, Germany 



I. In Rhenish Bavaria, in the Tripp- 

 stadt forest, near Kaiserslautern, the 

 white pine was introduced 120 years 

 ago. To-day white pine standard ^ 

 twenty inches to thirty-three inches in 

 diameter, breast-high, are found with a 

 prolific second growth. The illustra- 

 tions (Nos. i, 2, and 3) show the high 

 quality of these standards, as well as 

 the thriftiness of natural reproduction. 

 The price obtained for the White pine 

 in the log varies from $12.50 to $49 

 per 1,000 board-feet, according to size. 



