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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



The measurements made by the Bureau of Forestry 

 have shown that the loss from cutting high stumps on 

 a tract of 100,000 acres in the Adirondacks, yielding 

 on an average 15 standards per acre, would be 30,000 

 standards, or at a stumpage value of 50 cents per stand- 

 ard, would be $15,000. 



Fig. 26.— Protection of young growth in logging. Biltmore, N. C. 



The second thing to consider in felling a tree is how 

 to get it down w^ithout breaking or splitting the trunk. 

 On rocky, uneven ground this is often a hard thing 

 to do, but unless it can be accomplished the tree would, 

 as a rule, better be left untouched. 



Most important of all for the perpetuation of the 

 forest, each tree must be thrown where it will not 

 unnecessaril}" injure other trees or crush in its fall the 

 young seedlings on which the future of the forest 



