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dollars, while trees smaller than that might be considered to 

 net one dollar. 



If this were exactly true, it would establish two critical 

 points which would have to be specially considered in dis- 

 cussing the growth of land. Such points there are, though 

 not o^enerally sharply defined. They cannot all be taken account 

 of in this rei)ort, but it is hoped that with the figures deter- 

 mined by this work and the illustrations of their application 

 that are also given, men will be able to figure for themselves. 

 The ti«^ures for value in this case materially afiect the growth 

 calculation. Applying them to the acre from Grafton, I find 

 that while trees fourteen inches and under form about one- 

 third of the total amount of merchantable timber l)y scale 

 they form only one-fifth of its value. Of the stand of the 

 Parkertown acre trees of the same size form twenty-six per 

 cent of the stand while comprising at the rates named but 

 sixteen per cent of the value. More striking is the contrast 

 when the cut is supposed to go down to twelve inches at 

 breast hish. On the Grafton urea the trees between eight 

 and twelve inches comprise twenty-one per cent of the timber, 

 while they form but eleven per cent of its value. On the 

 Parkertown acre the per cents are fifteen and eight. These 

 figures show that comparatively small values are involved, 

 that the sacrifice of present profit the lumberman has to make 

 to secure to himself a considerable future growth upon his 

 land is but small* 



Nor is this the only point to be considered, ^,^[,",^e"'j\" 

 The increased value per volume which added size [hantimf^^ 

 gives affects not only the value of standing trees, ^^na"Ji\e^ 

 but it materially adds to the value of growth. The trees left 

 standing at a cut if in twenty years they have grown two 

 and one-half per cent, in size, in scale may have grown 

 at three and one-half per cent., in value at four or five. It is 

 value of course and not amount that men are concerned with 



*I have it on the best authority that in a clean cut to 7 or 8 Indies breast high 

 the loRs of first qualitj'— that is, those of large size exclusive of seamy and very 

 rough logs— form a fair land about two-thirds of the cut. 



