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actual stand of trees left after cutting, as judged from com- 

 parison of the sample area with the results of our exploration. 

 There will be little inducement to go back over lands 

 cut in that way after twenty years of recuperation. That 

 isn't half time enough for them to recuperate in, and peo- 

 ple who really want a steady yield from their tiinberlands 

 should take it to heart. 



Acre on Parkektown. 



Yearly growth in cubic feet, 9.2; at rate of 2.4 % compound interest. 

 Yearly growth in feet board measure, 40; at rate of 3% compound interest. 



But as Lessing's innkeeper said — it is not .j,j^p Grafton 

 good to stand on one leg. Let us again take up ^^^'^' 

 the sample acre from Grafton, the stand on which was sched- 

 uled on page 105, study for a moment the relations of its trees 

 to one another, and then, sui)posing a cut, first to 14 inches 

 breast high, then to 12, and lastly of everything merchanta- 

 ble, or say down to 8, see what the effect on the future of the 

 land will be. 



Bringinsr forward the score of spruce on this ''lo'^'n'"" ■ 



= c I of small and 



acre, attention should first be again called to the i'"s« '^•e^s. 

 relation of young to mature trees. Trees over fourteen inches 

 in diameter number thirty ; including those down to twelve, 

 forty. Trees l)etween six and twelve inches number fifty-seven. 

 This, I feel confident, is approximately a representative ratio. 



