. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 2S THE CANADA LUMBERMAN November, 1903 SUPREMACY IN THE SCIENCE OF FORESTRY. The United States government, contrary to all pre- cedent, will participate in a competitive exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis. Uncle Sam will have for his rival the German Empire, which nation's methods of forest management are best and most practical is the problem to be solved by actual demonstration. Two tracts of land, already partially covered with trees, and each about five acre
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 2S THE CANADA LUMBERMAN November, 1903 SUPREMACY IN THE SCIENCE OF FORESTRY. The United States government, contrary to all pre- cedent, will participate in a competitive exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis. Uncle Sam will have for his rival the German Empire, which nation's methods of forest management are best and most practical is the problem to be solved by actual demonstration. Two tracts of land, already partially covered with trees, and each about five acres in extent, have been assigned to the United States and German Govern- ments, as the laboratory for their tests. The two lie side by side, so that the visitor may walk through what the Americans ca'l an E" arbortum", and observe all American methods of forestry, and then step across into what the German designates as a "fore&t garden" and learn the German method. No trees will be cut from either tract. Rather trans- planting will be resorted to, and when the Exposition opens miniature forests, perfect in every detail, with narrow gravel walks winding in find out, may be seen. Every tree that thrives in the latitude of St. Louis will be represented and the specimen can be easily des- ignated. Attached to each tree will be an aluminum label on which will be stamped the botanical and com- mon names. In one respect the exhibits will be the same. Each display will embrace practically the same number of trees and they will be practically of the same varieties. Here all similarity ceases. The treatment will accord with the practices in vogue in the respective countries. In the American arbortum the trees will be planted, trained, and pruned and treated according to the Amer- ican idea. In the German forest garden will be repro- duced, in the miniature, the effects that obtain in the forests of the Fatherland, and the story of how the wonderful forests of that
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