AMERICAN WHITE PINE 

 One hundred and twenty years old; natural seed regenerations Trippstadt, Germany 



The stumpage price of White pine is 

 higher than that of any of the native 

 species, as shown by the price schedule 

 below : 



seedlings were outplanted per acre at 

 an expense of $10.60. Subsequent s\ 1- 

 vicultural treatment cost $14.28 per 

 acre. In 1908, the stand was fifty cords 



Diameter at middle of log, inside the bark 



Less 



The annual sustained yield on the 

 10,000 acres of Trippstadt forest 

 amounts to 2,280,000 board-feet, the 

 larger part of which consists of Scotch 

 pine and spruce. 



2. Near Konig, in the Odenwald, the 

 white pines introduced 120 years ago 

 by the Hessians who went to America 

 to visit George Washington, have be- 

 come twenty-two inches to thirty- four 

 inches in diameter, breast-high. (See 

 illustration No. 4.) 



3. In Heidelberg Forest, experi- 

 mental plots of white pine and other 

 American conifers were started in 1887- 

 1888; 2,735 two-year-old White pine 



332 



per acre. From 1903 to 1908, the av- 

 erage annual growth was three and 

 eight-tenths cords per acre (cords of 

 128 cubic feet, containing eighty-five 

 cubic feet of solid wood). A thinning 

 of two and eight-tenths cords per acre 

 in 1903 netted $3.50 per acre. Il- 

 lustration No. 5 shows the density of 

 the stand, the uniformity of growth, 

 and the clearness of the boles after 

 pruning. 



4. An excellent stand of White pine 

 fifty-five years old is found near Isen- 

 burg, south of Frankfurt, in the delta 

 region of the Rhine and Main rivers, 

 where conifers form twenty-four per 



