pole to reach the ends of tho limbs that a nan cannot handle 

 it while in the tree. I have tried picking up the seed from 

 the ground after it has fallen from the cones, tried shoot- 

 ing cones off with a rifle and have also traveled around 

 hunt ing out the sugar pine trees, picking up cones which have 

 boon cut off by squirrels. These last two methods I have 

 found to be the best so far, and especially the latter. If a 

 person gets to a tree about the time the squirrel gets through 

 cutting, it is very likely that he will get a number of cones 

 for as "near as I can learn a squirrel generally cuts anywhere 

 fron 5 to 25 cones before couing dovm. In one case I found 

 as high as 52 cones under one large troe. 



I found that shooting the cones off was faster than 

 climbing but this is rather expensive since the rifle shells 

 I used cost four cents apiece, even though I shot off 51 cones 

 in 20 shots. 



I got two ertra large cones on one of my trips and 

 upon taking them home I measured thorn, then extracted the seed. 

 The larger of the two was 28 inches in length and contained 

 385 seed, the smaller 26 inches in length and containing 378 

 seed. The seed from both cones weighed 10-1/2 ounces. 

 I have nede tests at several tines and find that it ta!:es on 

 an average of twelve ordinary conos to produce a pound of 

 clean seed. 



This is only my experience at seed gathering this 

 summer, and it is possible that by next season I will learn 

 of some way thr.t seed can be gathered more easily and more of 

 it. 



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 Silviculture 



A box of dendrological specimons consisting of cones 

 and branches of red fir, white fir, mountain hemlock and 

 mountain vhite pine TWBS recently sont to the District Office 

 for its herbarium. The red fir cones which rore especially 

 good specimens were wound vrith fine copper wire to 'coop them 

 intact. 



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