750 AMEKICAN FOEESTEY 



order that the greatest possible number of thread spools may be turned from 

 them. 



"New chemical uses have been discovered for what one day was the refuse. 

 Twenty years hence there will be still further uses. Not a twig will be 

 wasted. It seems simply inevitable that fifteen years from now, judging 

 from the increased demands for wood and the consequent increase of prices, 

 that this 2,000 acres will be just as valuable an asset to David H. Day or his 

 heirs, as any gold mine. 



NEW PLAN OF LUMBERING 



"The lumbering operation he has planned for the tract will be as different 

 from the methods of today and of twenty years ago as the demand, the prices 

 and the manufacturing utilization will be. He admits it would not be practical 

 from a financial point of view to begin today upon the plan he has in mind 

 for the future even were his reforestry experiment matured to that point 

 where he would be justified in beginning the cut. It will be a new era in the 

 woods. The axmen and sawmen will not go through and clean out every 

 available tree. It will be an annual thinning out process. There will be 

 a limit fixed below which no tree must be disturbed. Trees will be felled always 

 with the idea of conservation uppermost. The smaller trees, the crop of 

 future years will be protected. There is bound to be some little damage in 

 this event where trees grow in such close relationship as in the Day forestry 

 acres. But the men will work carefully. 



"Fifteen or twenty years from now, Mr. Day estimates, his mill will 

 have sawed up the last of the virgin timber he holds or will in the meantime 

 be able to procure. By that time he will be prepared to put his plans into 

 execution and his reforestation tract will be ready to yield its first dividends. 



"He has figured the thing out very carefully and is satisfied that his 

 estimates are entirely conservative. Two hundred acres will be sufiScient under 

 the new order of things that then will prevail, to keep his mill busy for a 

 year. As has been said, the acres will not be cut clean. Trees of twelve, 

 probably fourteen inches, only will be taken. All under that size carefully 

 will be preserved. The woods will be cleaned up trimly as the logging opera- 

 tions advance. Protection against fire will be afforded and upon practical 

 lines. By cutting over or rather, by weeding out the marketable timber of 

 200 acres every year, it will be ten years between the cuts over the same 

 acreage. In other words, ten years will be required to cut over the 2,000 

 acres and the total acreage will be much larger than this by that time. At 

 any rate, Mr. Day figured on ten years and says it is eminently conservative. 



"The thinning out operations will have the effect of giving the remaining 

 trees new impetus. Ten years will be sufficient to bring enough other trees 

 to cutable size to give the mills another year's supply from 200 acres. It will 

 be evident that this means a constant rotation of things. Year after year a 

 fixed area will be cut over. And once in a decade the same ground will be 



