CONTENTS. 



PART I.— Forest Culture. 



CHAPTER I. 

 ; Introductory Remarks 9 



<' CHAPTER II. 

 ii4 Impoi-tance of Forest Culture.- 15 



CHAPTER III. 



Proportion of the Wooded Lands of a Country to its Total Area 19 



CHAPTER IV. 



Relations of the Government to Forests— Protective Forests 22 



CHAPTER V. 

 Governmental Assistance to Forest Culture — Establishment of 



Forest Schools for Training Foresters 29 



CHAPTER VI. 



Forest Planting -Preparatory and Precautionary Measures 36 



CHAPTER VII. 



J Methods of Culture and their Success 38 



CHAPTER VIII. 



^ Cultivation of the Soil - 41 



CHAPTER IX. 



' Drainage and Irrigation 43 



CHAPTER X. 



t. Selection of Trees --- 47 



CHAPTER XI. 



V' The Various Systems of Forest Management - 54 



CHAPTER ■ XII. 



Raising Forest Trees by Natural Reproduction 64 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Collection and Treatment of Seeds for Forest-Trees 68 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 Raising Forest Trees by Seeding ..- 74 



CHAPTER XV. 

 7 Planting Forest Trees 90 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 The Care of Young Plantations 109 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Protection of Forests against Animals and Elemental Forces 118 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 The Conversion of the Wild or Natural Woods into Cultivated 



Forests— What the American Forester should do next 138 



