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vival, 83. Average height remaining trees, 20 feet. Average d. b. h., 

 3.5 inches. Classed as in good condition, 56 per cent. Classed as dying, 

 poor, injured, etc., 44 per cent. 



Evidently little can be expected of the remaining trees as a basis 

 for a new crop. General observations over the whole tract showed that 

 the conifers, chiefly hemlock, all were dying or dead so that the new 

 stand will be restricted to hardwoods. The only species bearing seed, 

 or showing evidence of having borne seed, were the hemlock and the 

 basswood, although these species were seeding abundantly, no seed- 

 lings produced from this seed were found. (Possibly the seed is un- 

 fertile.) Some of the other species may later develop into seed- 

 producing -trees but they will be of little practical advantage as by 

 that time the area will have been reproduced from other quarters or run 

 wild with weeds and brush. 



SPROUT REPRODUCTION 



The distinction made between sprouts from stumps of mature trees 

 cut for lumber and smaller trees .destroyed in acts of logging taking 

 a stump diameter of 6 inches as the dividing line proved of little value, 

 as, except for basswood, practically no stumps over G inches sprouted. 

 Sprout reproduction, except for basswood, was confined to sapling 

 sprouts. The basswood stumps sprouted up to largest size present, 

 that being about 30 inches. The following tabulation gives the es- 

 sential facts regarding the sprouting capacity of dififerent species : 



The above table seems to show, first, that a fairly adequate re- 

 production from sprouts can be secured. With 1,300 sprouts to the 

 acre and an average of 5 sprouts to the stool assuming a survival of 

 one-fifth of these sprouts, or one per stool, the stand would contain 

 later in life about 600 standards. Of course no definite conclusion 

 of the ultimate value of these sprouts can be arrived at without a 

 knowledge of their probable growth rate later in life, but they cer- 

 tainly look promising now. 



