74 Canadian Forestry Journal. 



would fill a tooth. The wound will as a rule heal over, enclosing 

 the filling-, and the tree will be practically as healthy as ever. 

 This practice is followed in treating the live-oaks in California 

 with great success. 



Cleaning. 



All dead branches should be removed \\dthout delay for, if 

 left on the tree, they act as centers from which decay will spread. 



To recapitulate what has already been said — plant uniformly 

 with good thrifty nurserv' stock of the species best adapted to the 

 situation; plant the trees far enough apart to enable each tree 

 to reach its highest development ; prune systematically and care- 

 fully, paying particular attention to the removal of all stubs and 

 dead branches which are liable to act as starting points for decay ; 

 disinfect all wounds with coal tar. 



The following note is from the American Forestrv' 

 Quarterly : — 



Austria's total forest area is about 24,ooo,ocx) acres, of which 

 hardly eight per cent belong to the State, but altogether over lo 

 per cent, are under State administration. Private forests comprise 

 over 14 million acres, and the remainder is owned by communities 

 and institutes. The proportion of coniferous, deciduous and' mix- 

 ed forest, is about as 6 to 2 to 1.8. The average annual accretion 

 is 46 cubic feet per acre for the timber forest, with 20 per cent, 

 work wood. 3,571 foresters and 27,000 rangers are employed. 

 Day wages for men at planting w'ork yd.ry from 24 cents to 80 

 cents in one region, from 65 cents to $1.25 in another region. In 

 Austria, besides a great variety of wood consuming factories, 

 there are over 61,000 sawmills and 253 pulp mills, the latter 

 using over 400,000 cords of wood. 



