908 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



tion as to the condition and distribution of the young growth in order 

 to make possible the consideration of its amount and quaHty in arriving 

 at the total value to be put upon the lands offered. 



Accordingly, a crew of two forest school graduates, working under 

 the direction of the owner's logging engineer, was employed during the 

 past summer in making a detailed field survey of the cut-over lands. 

 The work was done by running lines twice through each forty by 

 means of staff compass and pacing. One man acted as compassman 

 and the other as tallyman, but the two conferred each time on the 

 classification of the young growth. The classification was made by 

 plots each 5 chains square and containing 2^ acres. This made sixteen 

 plots to each forty with four such plots on either side of the two survey 

 lines within a forty. The procedure followed by the crew was to 

 offset 5 chains from a forty corner and then run a compass line for 2J^ 

 chains. This point was half-way along a 25^-acre plot on either side 

 of the survey line, and from it notes were made of the condition of the 

 reproduction first upon one plot and then upon the other. If because 

 of topography or young growth it was impossible to see the conditions 

 of the plot from this point an offset of 2^ chains was made to the 

 center of the plot before the notes were taken. Return was then made 

 to the first point, the survey line extended for 5 chains and the operation 

 repeated. All section and quarter corners that could be located were 

 tied into for control, and general notes were taken to aid in mapping. 

 On areas of recent burns where no young growth remained it was 

 found unnecessary to run strips, but the boundaries were mapped and 

 the interiors classified as not restocking with reproduction. Under the 

 average of all conditions on the tract the crew was able to cover about 

 300 acres per day. 



The principal object of the field survey was to classify the land 

 according to the degree of stocking of reproduction. Each 3^-acre 

 plot was therefore recorded as coming within one of three classes, 

 depending upon the percentage of the area covered with young growth, 

 as well stocked, partly stocked, and non-stocked. It was found that 

 some of the well-stocked plots had young growth over 25 or 30 years of 

 age with correspondingly greater value, and these were recorded in a 

 sub-class. The specifications of the classes made were as follows : 



I. Class One. — Well stocked. — 60 to 100 per cent of area stocked 

 with young growth sufficient to produce a stand of a density equal or 

 better than the original. 



