UNBURNED CUT-OVER LANDS IN THE ADIRONDACKS 397 



Table 4. — Showing the Number of Seedlings and Trees Less Than 1.5 Inches in 

 Diameter at Breast Height, per Acre, by Species 



Number per acre 



„ . , ^ ^ 



i'Pecies Logged to All merchantable 



diameter limit timber logged 



Pine o o 



Hemlock 13 2 



gPfuce • 185 454 



Balsam 21.4 13 



Beech 1,036 578 



Sugar maple 3,779 838 



Red maple 793 900 



Yellow birch 224 2,530 



Black cherry o 36 



Fire cherry o 404 



Totals 5,051.4 5,755 



Column number i taken from 97 sample plots distributed over 37 acres in 

 northwest ^, township 35, Totten and Crossfield purchase. This, a portion of 

 the Whitney estate, represents hardwood and softwood type which was logged to 

 a ID-inch diameter limit, as discussed in F. S. Bui. 26, in 1898. 



Column number 2 taken from 181 sample plots distributed over 680 acres in the 

 southeast H, township 15, Macombs Great Tract number 3 (Southern St. Law- 

 rence County). Represents same natural type of mixed hard and softwood, 

 logged for both hard and softwood without diameter limit, about 1907. 



