1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 



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The system is the most remunerative in 

 Europe and there are Saxon forest ranges 

 which yield a net revenue of twelve to fif- 

 teen dollars per acre per annum. On the 

 other hand, it gives rise to dangers, from 

 insects and from wind which are suffici- 

 ently serious to render its advisability an 



to Saxony, particularly those which are 

 taken as a safeguard against wind. The 

 ranges are split up into a number of 

 what are called cutting series, each series 

 constituting an area which is treated sepa- 

 rately. Since the heavy winds in Saxony 

 are westerly, the object in the manage- 



A MATURE SPRUCE-WOOD IN SAXONY. 



>pen question. The one is invited by the 

 aising of pure evergreen woods of one 

 pecies over large areas ; the other by the 

 dean cuttings, under which trees grown 

 unclosed woods become suddenly and 

 ully exposed. The measures enforced to 

 rive the highest possible degree of safety 

 igainst these dangers are largely peculiar 



ment of these cutting series is so to lumber 

 them that the youngest woods occupy the 

 west and the oldest the east side. With 

 this in view, cuttings proceed always from 

 east towards west, with the result that the 

 closed forest is never suddenly exposed on 

 the west side. A normal " cutting series," 

 or in other words one in which there is a 



