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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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tion; * further, an area where litter has been collected must have at leastsix years rest before it is again opened for that purpose; and lastly, the areasopened for the collection of litter must be assigned annually by the responsibleforest officers, and this is done in accordance with a well-considered plan. Never-theless, the quantity of leaves removed annually is enormous. In spring andautumn long strings of wagons filled with huge mountains of litter leave the forestin every direction, and the result is that the soil does not improve as much as itmight, and in places it is much impoverished. f In some districts all products of the forest are put upon the market. In aforest belonging to the city of Grabow in Mecklenburg a good layer of leavesand moss sells for sixteen dollars per acre. *The term of rotation prescribed for oak is 300, for beech 120, for Scotch pine 96, and forspruce 72 years. t Garden and Forest, May, 1894. Mixed Oak and Beech Forests of the Spessart, byD. Brandis.
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