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the time is not far distant now when his tinioer will he 

 matuie, when he will have to ent it and will want to 

 replace it with another of the same kind, welcomes 

 their appearance and cares for their welfare. As they grow 

 hirger and re(|uire more light and air, he o))ens u\) the old 

 stand around them. With that, too, the {)atch of young trees 

 spreads. More thinning out assists it : different regions of 

 thinning run into one another. Finally the whole area of the 

 stand has heen lighted up, young trees have followed the 

 fiivorino- treatment and a dense crop of them covers nearly 

 every square rod of the ground. Much of the old stand has 

 in the mean time l)ccn reaped. What remains to he done is 

 simply to clear otl' the halance with due regard for the welfare 

 of the succeeding stand. By these measures and on these 

 principles the land, in the course of 120 years, handled, of 

 course, meanwhile l)y many individual managers, but always 

 with regard for its productiveness in the long run, has pro- 

 duced a magnificent crop of timber, has yielded in the thin- 

 ninirs material much more than ])avino- for the labor of its 

 cutting and it has afforded steady labor at aliout the rate of 

 one man per 100 acres to tour generations of men. During 

 the last thirty or forty years of that time, simply l)y gradual 

 removal of the crop and care for the young growth which 

 succeeds correct handling of the conditions of light and soil, 

 a neu' crop has been started ready to carry on the same 

 process in its turn. 



How much of the German practice may be Application 

 adopted here to advantage, how much of it is coiuhnons. 

 possible under our business conditions, can only be told after 

 trial. AVhatever we do adopt will be gradually taken up. 

 Many of the measures that are recommended from that source 

 are the same that have been suggested to us already by the facts 

 of our own woods. 



Something we nuisttake, however, from the general attitude 

 of the German [)eo})le to the forest. The facts of the situation, 

 indeed, will compel us. The forest will have to be regarded 



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