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IN Forestry Abstracts (Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, vol. 10, No. 1 Abstracts (1)—(849), September 1948, Commonwealth Forestry Bureau, Oxford), Mr. J. J. MacGregor, of the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford, has an interesting paper on "Some Improved Techniques in Nurseries and on Planting Sites". There are many influences, he says, compelling foresters all over the world to revise time-worn practices. These influences are part of the general economic environment in which rising wages and relative shortages of labour are, perhaps, most significant. They have directly stimulated the search for more economic methods, machines and techniques. In a general way, current and recent developments have proceeded along the two main lines of 'rationalization' and the application of new techniques to specific operations. The latter, which includes the adoption of mechanization, improved processes with new tools and new treatments, forms the basis of the article.
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Modern Developments in Forestry. Nature 162, 974 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162974a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162974a0