This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... they are patchy, with a low and decreasing yield per acre. There has been till now no attempt at rotation of blocks or working in periods. As is found in India, a glance at. the outskirts of the forest would lead one to suppose it i'nirly stocked with timber, but a more careful inspection proves that this is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... they are patchy, with a low and decreasing yield per acre. There has been till now no attempt at rotation of blocks or working in periods. As is found in India, a glance at. the outskirts of the forest would lead one to suppose it i'nirly stocked with timber, but a more careful inspection proves that this is not the case, and that only in the valleys and more remote portions, where the soil is particularly good and the ax has not been so frequent in its inroads, is there a fair and regular crop. Herr Schnppitch, the present director, is trying hard to change matters, and is cbiiuging the hardwood crop, which has exhausted the soil for that class, with pine growths, which, besides, grow quicker and pay better. He is also dividing into blocks and periods, and planting up many bare or ill-covered tracts, where natural reproduction is impossible owing to the absence of standard trees. GKAKD DUCHY OF BADEN. We shall now notice a private forest, that of the Prince of Furstenburgh, in the Black Forest. The receipts and expenditures are not obtainable, as are the public ones. but we are informed that the forests are economically worked, and that the liberal eums expended on road-making, fitting rivers for floating, housing foresters, &c., were well repaid by the facilities secured and contentment and zeal of the employes. In the case of this, as of other private forests, it is evident that a private individual is not burdened with considerations of policy and public good as in a state. The forests are, therefore, worked with the best profit compatible with their retention as capital. There are about 72,000 acres, in charge of eighteen foresters and over-foresters, who-of course have many subordinates. The method employed is the slow felling and...
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