. American forestry. Forests and forestry. AMERICAN WHITE PINE One hundred and twenty years old ; natural seed regeneration ; Trippstadt, Germany The stiimpage price of White pine is higher than that of any of the native species, as shown h}- tlic i)ricc schcthile below : seedhngs were outplanted per acre at an expense of $ Subsequent syl- vicultural treatment cost $ per acre. In 1908, the stand was fifty cords Diameter at middle of log, inside the bark Less 2o"-24" i6"-20" i2"-i6" io"-i2" than 10" White Pine, per M $ $37-00 $ $
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. AMERICAN WHITE PINE One hundred and twenty years old ; natural seed regeneration ; Trippstadt, Germany The stiimpage price of White pine is higher than that of any of the native species, as shown h}- tlic i)ricc schcthile below : seedhngs were outplanted per acre at an expense of $ Subsequent syl- vicultural treatment cost $ per acre. In 1908, the stand was fifty cords Diameter at middle of log, inside the bark Less 2o"-24" i6"-20" i2"-i6" io"-i2" than 10" White Pine, per M $ $37-00 $ $ $ Scotch Pine, per M 26.(X) 22,00 Larch, per M Spruce, per M Fir, per M The annual sustained yield on the per acre. From 1903 to 1908, the av- 10,000 acres of Trippstadt forest erage annual growth was three and amounts to 2,280,000 board-feet, the eight-tenths cords per acre (cords of larger part of which consists of Scotch 128 cubic feet, containing eighty-five pine and spruce. cubic feet of solid wood). A thinning 2. Near Konig, in the Odenwald, the of two and eight-tenths cords per acre white pines introduced 120 years ago in 1903 netted $ per acre. II- by the Hessians who went to America lustration No. 5 shows the density of to visit George Washington, have be- the stand, the unifonuity of growth, come twenty-two inches to thirty-four and the clearness of the boles after inches in diameter, breast-high. (See pruning. illustration No. 4.) 4. An excellent stand of White pine 3. In Heidelberg Forest, experi- fifty-five years old is found near Iseii- mental plots of wdiite pine and other burg, south of Frankfurt, in the delta American conifers were started in 1887- region of the Rhine and Main rivers, 1888; 2,735 two-year-old White pine wdiere conifers form twent3'-four per 332. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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