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 fourteenth Journal includes information on: Conference of Divisional Officers at Benmore; Ink disease and other root affections; Progress report on research; Divisional experiments on the turf planting of seedlings; The raising of strong conifer seedlings; Marketing of home-grown timber; Sitka spruce timber from Benmore; The simar rototiller; Nutrient content of nursery plants; R.S.F.S. summer meeting 1934; Study of pine shoot moth damage; Mechanical drainage; Damage by voles in Argyllshire; Growth of young trees in relation to beating-up; Circular on nursery work; Commission’s library: new books; Establishment of plantations; Vegetation as soil indicator; Planting distances; Chafer beetles; Replanting coppice areas; Coppice areas in the East Midlands; Map measuring; Preparation and sale of produce; Birch brooms; Fire protection (look-out towers); Tentsmuir and its flora; Miscellaneous notes.