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Stump poisoning experiment

• HF-ID: HF1926-02
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Cline, Albert C.
  • Hosley, Neil W.

• Associated Person:
  • Spaeth, J. Nelson
  • Robinson, Frank

• Date: 1926
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest), PH I
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Report. 1 file folder.

• Keywords: silviculture
• Abstract:
  • About April 15, 1926, a sodium arsenite solution as described by J. N. Spaeth was applied to stumps of red maple and gray birch cut during the past winter to test the solution as a means of preventing sprouting (PH I, Cd-3 and PH I, Cd-4).
  
  
  • [An entry in the Harvard Forest log book from April 1926 notes that "Stump poison was applied to stumps of the recent cordwood cut on PH VII by A.C. Cline on Apr. 14, on the following day by N.W. Hosley (as an experiment).]

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