Unasylva - Vol. 11, No. 4













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1957

Unasylva - An International Review of Forestry and Forest Products

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Cover Photograph: On Mindoro Island, in the Philippines, a Hanunóo shifting cultivator is required to leave a "detour marker" when a clearing is made across an established trail. Inscribed on the outer surface of the bamboo cylinder in this photograph is a message written in the Hanunóo, syllabary telling the traveler where he should walk to avoid an area recently cut over - but still unburned - for purposes of shifting cultivation.

Courtesy, Harold C. Conklin

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Table of Contents


Productivity in forest operations

G. E. Bell
Economics of barking and chip production

H. G. Wilm
The influence of forest vegetation on water and soil

F. H. Landon and G. G. K. Setten
Forestry and forest research in the federation of Malaya

Harold C. Conklin
Hanunóo agriculture

F. Loetsch
A forest inventory in Thailand

Commodity report

The work of FAO

Asia-Pacific forestry commission
Teak Subcommission

Equipment section

News of the world

Book notices

Some new forestry publications

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