BOOKS ON PRACTICAL FORESTRY 



(mailed on receipt of price). 

 Published and for Sale by 



BILTMORE FOREST SCHOOL 



Biltmore, N. C, U. S. A., and Darmstadt, Germany. 



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1. LECTURES ON SYLVICULTURE, price ,12.00 (registered mail 25 c). 



The book gives a complete account of the art of c The Raising and the Tending of Woodlands". It foots on the 

 practical experiences in sylviculture made by the B. F. S., whilst it was connected with the Biltmore Estate. 



I Chapter: Foundations of Sylviculture. 

 II Chapter: The High forest 



III Chapter: The Coppice forest. 



IV Chapter: The Coppice forest under standards. 

 V Chapter: The raising of by-products. 



2. LOGGING AND LUMBERING, price g 5.00 (registered mail 25 c). 

 The book contains several hundred pages and several hundred pictures 



It exhibits for the first time in a comprehensive way the details of what is generally known as "lumbering". 



It is divided into two parts—the first comprising the work in the woods, and the second A comprising the work in 

 the manufactories. 



There are chapters on logging by animals, by steam, by 'flying' machines, by water, and by gravity. Further, 

 chapters on the various varieties of sawmills, on wood-working plants, barrel works, box factories, pulp mills, timber 

 impregnating works, etc. 



3. FOREST MENSURATION, price g J239 (registered mail 20 c). 



A book of 70 pp., it gives an account of forest mensuration, — in the lumberman's parlance of timber cruising 

 and timber estimating. It deals with the contents of logs, the contents of trees felled, the contents of trees standing, 

 the rate of growth, and, finally, with the rudiments of lumber inspection. 



4. FOREST MANAGEMENT, price 50 c (registered mail 15 c). 



By forest management is understood the science of 'forest working plans'. Working plans are schemes of 

 forest development, of forest management. They may extend over one year, thus adopting the shape of an annual 

 budget, or over a large number of years, as the case may be. The working plan may favor— according to the owner's 

 desire and according to the economic conditions— a destructive, a constructive, or, finally, a conservative treatment of 

 the woods. The book outlines the forest working plan methods adopted in the old country, and those advocated, or 

 introduced into the United States more recently. 



5. FOREST FINANCE, price 50 c (registered mail 15 c). 



This booklet gives the principles of forest finance, the influence of forest taxation and forest fires on the out- 

 come of forest investments, and that like. 



~~It shows the manner and means by which the value of forests, and the dividends obtained from their destructive 

 or conservative management, are being ascertained. The booklet, finally, gives tables of compound Interest in a con- 

 densed and handy form suitable for use by investors in forest lands. 



6. FOREST POLICY, price $1.75 (registered mail 25 c). 



By forest policy is understood any and all governmental activity having the forest for its object. 



The book gives the various definitions of forestry, the purpose at stake in forestry, and the general conditions 

 leading a people to adopt a forest policy. 



There are chapters dealing with the revenue derivable from forestry, and of the advantages and disadvantages 

 confronting the forest investor. A series of paragraphs are given to the labor problems and to the transportation 

 problems of the forest, and another series to the influence of the forest on the hygiene, on temperature, on humidity, 

 and on the regime of springs and rivers. 



These paragraphs are followed by statistics of forest consumption, of forest production, of forest area and of 

 forest wealth. As a resume there is further given the forest history of the United States, and the forest history of a 



number of foreign countries. 



The history of the national forests and the history of the woodlands owned by the various states are also shown. 

 The closing paragraphs deal with the principles of government forestry, and also with the tariff on wood and timber. 



