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The Forestry Commission Journal was introduced as a way to communicate information on a wide range of topics which could not be communicated through ‘ordinary official channels’, and was intended to be a means of exchanging the opinions and experiences of all members of the staff.

This twenty-fourth Journal includes information on:

The forests of Sicily; A tour of French forests; Fourth World Forestry Congress Dehra Dun, India — December 1954; A note on forestry in Northern Ireland; Alice Holt Forest: contributions to its history; The Benmore Forest Garden; Larch plantations at Atholl and Dunkeld; Collection of lodgepole pine seed from British Crops; Variation in branch form in the progeny of individual Japanese larch trees; Whence those hops?; Notes on ploughing equipment; Establishment of hardwoods in Scotland; Notes on planting periods and resultant percentage of failure; Treatment of felled broadleaved areas in the Midlands; Tree growth on acid soil; Planting Corsican pine in trenches ploughed in sand; Watten experimental area, Caithness; Lime-induced chlorosis of Corsican pine at Friston Forest, Sussex; Grey squirrel enquiry; Monetary return from thinning a thirteen-year old Japanese larch stand at Allerston Forest; Hints on the care and use of axes; Mobile accommodation units;

Converting a motorcycle to carry two knapsack fire pumps;

The pannier bag carriers on a motorcycle of the Triumph make, type T R W .499 c.c., can readily be converted to take two knapsack pumps for firefighting, as follows:

Remove pannier bags, bolt a metal sheet the size of knapsack pump on the base of carrier with a two inch flange on the outside, with two eyes to hold straps taken from pumps. The straps will then pass up and over the top of pum p and
fasten together from each side above the mudguard carrier. Remove foot plate from pump, this will give a proper setting in the pannier bag carriers. A sponge rubber fitted on the inside of the pump filling cover will give a water-tight seal, so that water will not splash out when the motorcycle shakes.

Every effort should be made to keep the pumps full to capacity to get a good balance with the motor-cycle shakes.

A handy staple extractor; A cone splitter for seed sampling; A vanishing craft, “aesculus”; The future of home grown softwoods; The thinnings house, timber development association; Notes on home grown timber and its use on the farm; The preservative treatment of timber; Newsprint production at Sittingbourne, Kent; District Officer home Forestry Commission: to be or not to be?; Preliminary working plan reports; Newcomers to Northumberland forest villages; Glenmore Lodge. Scottish council of physical recreation; The work of the nature conservancy; Bird notes from Lynford Hall; British Bryological Society field excursion, Arnside, Westmorland; A note on the ecology of the limestone pavement in Westmorland; Reflections; Book review: in the Western Highlands; Norwegian idyll; Seventeenth century forestry on a Hertfordshire estate; Ornamentals.

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Published
1955
Publication type
Archive publication: Journal
Publication owner
Forestry Commission