This paper deals with the results of studies on chemical debarking of pine (Pinusl densiflora) trees.
The experiments were conducted at Asakawa Experiment Forest in 1956 and 1957.
The results of these experiments are summarized as follows :
1. Trees treated in summer (mid May-mid August) changed needles brown in the course of a month, so it was recognized that trees were completely killed.
Trees treated in autumn (late September) changed needles brown in five months.
Check trees, girdled but not chemically treated, kept needles green until they were felled.
2. Blue stains were found in all chemically treatedtrees, especially stains were severe in trees treated in summer.
In the case of trees treated at the same time, the degree of attack by blue stain fungi depended on lapse of the days after treatment.
3. Bark insects and wood borers were observed in trees chemically treated in summer, but the degree of their attack were not significant.
4. In check trees, blue stains, bark insects and wood borers were not observed.
5. Trees chemically treated generally showed easy peeling, except thos etreated in autumn. In peeling, trees treated in summer, the affect of time of treatmentwas not significant.
6. Appreciable decrease in weight was found in chemically treated trees, so they were lighter than untreated trees and check trees.
In trees treated in mid August and late September, reduction in weight was slow.
7. Residual arsenic was very little in chemically treated trees.
A large fraction of residual arsenic remained in the top of logs and inner bark.
In wood under girdle, arsenic was not found.
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