58 FOREST commissioner's report. 



other lumbeniian its amount would be a matter of o;i-eat sur- 

 doel"imino- pi'ise. I do not here refer altogether to pulp stuff, 

 leave.-' small trees which in a cut for saw logs it would be 



inipossible to take. I mean trees large enough to make saw 

 timlier, which for one reason or another not related to their 

 size and quality are passed hy in the cut. How many there 

 are one only discovers when he guides his cruising by the sun 

 or the compass and disregards roads. Near his main roads 

 every lumberman cuts cleanly.* Off on the knolls and ridges 

 at the end of his twitch roads, on the often difficult land 

 where works from diflferent directions meet, bunches of timber 

 will generally be found. It takes nice planning of logging 

 works, and exceedingly close watch of crews besides, to pick 

 up all that might be picked up on the land. Men cutting on 

 stumpage never do it, and most men cutting their own land 

 think it does not pay. So with Mr. Cullens' works. His 

 cut was what he said it was, close and systematic — probably 

 few townships on the upper Kennebec have been cut as 

 closely — yet occasional bunches of timber were found 

 throuo;hout it,runnino: from a few trees up to several thousand 

 feet, always at the heads of the roads and frequently on some 

 pinnacle or piece of broken ground. In addition to this 

 enouo;h trees were scattered alons; throuo'h all parts of the 

 works to make up an average stand of several hundred feet 

 of a good quality of logs, such as any operator would be glad 

 to have. 



* Even this statement must be modified. Half the operators on all our rivers 

 don't know wliat it is to really clean a piece of ground of merchantable timber. 

 Most, of course, is left where men go to tlie stump witli sleds. I have been in new 

 works of this kind, where on not difficult land 2 or 3 M feet of lumber stood per 

 acre in the shape of logs of all sizes, and yet the operator thought he had cut it 

 clean. Every man says he cuts clean. You have got to know your man to tell 

 ■what he really means. 



