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Identifier: annualreport671913newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A Spessart oak, estimated to be about 700 years old,containing 9 cords of wood, including veneer logswhich will sell for over $500 REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I913 Jl as coppice under standards, the coppice being treated in rotationsof 32 years, and consisting of hornbeam, basswood, birch, oak andbeech. The white oaks and beech were the standards for the formercoppice and there is still left an enormous number of these primewhite oaks, which are being gradually cut. The Gramschatz administration receives for its timber, pricesranging from $15 to $100 a cubic meter, the latter price for thebest veneer oak. The gross receipts obtained at the auctions oftimber aggregate over $60,000 a year for this range. The coppice under standards system began in i8c6, when thearchbishop was deprived of his possessions, which were then madeover to the Reichsverweser. In 1814 the lands were turned overto the kingdom of Bavaria, which continued to cut down the coppicewoods and to replace them by a high

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