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-sixth Journal includes information on:
- Forestry, agriculture, and marginal land;
- Notes on the Seventh British Commonwealth Forestry Conference, 1957;
- Australia and New Zealand;
- A tour of Tasmania and North Auckland;
- A year with American foresters;
- A visit to Russia;
- In the forests of the Caucasus;
- A Visit to German Forests;
- Gibraltar;
- Forestry in Great Britain: a review;
- Forestry in Ayrshire;
- Notes on Whittingehame;
- Crarae forest garden;
- The tree and garden books at Gravetye Manor;
- Tallest and largest specimens of common trees recorded since 1947;
- Newborough forest, Anglesey;
- Advice on choice and treatment of forest tree seed;
- A key to 21 sorts of conifer seed;
- A review of nursery research: 1952-56;
- The benefit of lath covers for protection against frost;
- A review of research branch trial plantations;
- Trials of a disc plough on upland heaths;
- Some principles of combustion and their significance in forest fire behaviour;
- An experiment to conserve water used by a Landrover fitted with a Langdon pump for fire fighting;
- Supply points for knapsack sprayers;
- A vision of F.Y.85, or fire protection fantasy;
- Vole damage, 1956-57;
- The natural and artificial control of vertebrate pests of agriculture;
- The wood-pigeon problem;
- Winter roosting of starlings at Halvana, Wilsey Down Forest;
- Mechanical engineering in forestry operations;
- Waterways for culverts in border forest areas;
- Impressions of forest work in Sweden;
- Norwegian ideas on forest working techniques;
- Report on Sonsterrud forest workers course, Norway;
- A discussion on tool maintenance instruction courses;
- Forest worker instruction;
- Some notes on timber felling;
- Heavy timber felling;
- Transport of pit props by sea;
- Grading of sawn British softwoods;
- New hardboard plant opened;
- Good fuel;
- The soil survey of Scotland;
- Forestry in relation to landscape;
- Forestry from the town planner’s angle;
- The woodlands of Sussex;
- British Bryological Society field excursion, Barnstaple;
- Excavations at Staple Howe, Scardale Forest;
- Book review: Timbers used in the musical instruments’ industry;
- Mathematika.