FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



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small and stunted spruce with which all wanderers in the 

 j\Iaine woods arc familiar. All stashes of traii^^ition are of 



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course to be found. 



HALF ACRE ON" IIT, R. SIX, SOMERSET COUNTY. 

 On Rocky Land, Moss-covered, of Slow Growth. 



Many very small flr and spruce. 



Pines about 90 feet tall. Lumber imperfect. 



Tallest spruce about 70 feet. 



Numerous dead spruce und pine. 



Stand per Acre. 



Pine, 2,040 cubic feet, about 6,000 feet B. M. saw logs. 

 Spruce, 2,S0(J cubic feet, about 6,000 feet B. M. saw logs. 



The half acre, notes on which are here presented, was 2,000 

 feet above sea on nearly level and not specially exposed 

 ground. It is not to l)e taken as representing the average 

 stand of timber in the country. It has altogether too much 

 pine on it for that. In respect to spruce, too, it represents a 

 larofe stand, as much in fact as could well grow on the irround 

 in this size of trees. The trunks stood pretty closely together, 

 and their crowns shaded the ground al)out as densely and 

 evenly as spruce ever does. 



In the neighborhood of this area a test was made which 

 illustrates what I said of the value to lumbermen of a means 

 of determining on standinjr trees the percenta<re ,^ ,. 



~ ~ 1 e Testing rate 



of growth. I wished to test the thriftiness of this ofgroxvti.. 

 particular stand, so selecting large and well crowned trees, 

 running about fourteen inches in diameter, ten of them were 



