FORESTRY EXPERIMENTS 



BY F. \VM. KANE, 



Professor of Horticulture and Forestry, New Hampshire College. 



The object and purpose of this bulletin is to give the in- 

 formation which everybody in New England should have in 

 regard to our native pine seedlings. We have been unable 

 to find any literature on forestry sufficiently brief which, 

 placed in the hands of a landowner, would enable him to 

 go to work and do something by himself in a practical way. 

 It was to give exactly this sort of information that Bulle- 

 tins Nos. 95 and 106 were published. No. 95, "How to 

 grow a forest from seed," was written with the purpose of 

 giving the reader a general idea of forestry. Enough defin- 

 ite experimental data are found here so that a person can 

 determine means, methods and expense. 



No. 106, "How to make a beginning," and "Waste lands; 

 how to convert them into forests." This bulletin classifies 

 our lands that would make valuable forests, biit at present 

 are practical^ worthless, and tells how to handle each so 

 as to get forests started upon them. 



Both of the above bulletins are the results of studying 

 practical New England forestry conditons. The writer 

 went directly into the woods in different parts of the state, 

 made a study of different kinds of soils in which trees are 

 and have been growing, secured definite data and facts from 

 farmers themselves, observed trees growing in all stages 

 and conditions, etc. The nature of what people wanted to 

 know was also determined from letters of inquiry of the 

 college, from inquiries when traveling about the state, and 

 discussions at public agricultural meetings. 



