40 HISTORY OF LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK. 



charitable timber is made by leaving, at suitable intervals, healthy 

 individuals to serve as seed trees in propagating a wind-sown crop of 

 seedlings in the openings. Economical methods of felling trees have 

 been introduced which protect the young growth and in addition yield 

 more timber per tree. New industries have arisen that are dependent 

 on forest products and utilize much of the material which heretofore 

 has gone to waste. 



The work is placed under the charge of skilled foresters, who mark 

 each tree that is to be cut, and allow nothing cut that is not marked. 

 The protective functions of the forest are carefully guarded, and no 

 trees whatever are allowed to be cut on steep sidehills, or where a 

 cutting might result in windfalls, soil erosion, or denudation. 



The great primeval forests owned by the State have been carefully 

 examined by competent foresters. Intelligent working plans have 

 been made under which the matured timber may be removed from 

 time to time and a permanent annual revenue secured to the State 

 whenever the present constitutional restrictions are removed. And 

 so, profiting by the lessons of the past and encouraged by the success 

 of the present, the great lumber industry of the State enters upon 

 another century of its existence with every promise that it will con- 

 tinue to add its full share to the honor and prosperity of the Common- 

 wealth. 



