FORESTRY AT NEHASANE PARK 689 



method for present conditions especially in view of the uncertainty of 

 the financial outcome. 



Spruce may give a heavier yield of timber to the acre than a hard- 

 wood stand ; but who can predict the relative prices of the different 

 species in the future? 



Criticism No. 6. — When the second cutting is finished the forest will 

 still contain many cull hardzvoods whose crowns occupy a large 

 proportion of the space and render the area so covered unpro- 

 ductive. 



This condition occurs only on the hardwood lands. It is evident 

 from a casual inspection of the forest, that the situation is as described. 

 Evidently the second cutting has failed to remove entirely the over- 

 mature timber and change the forest into one which is mainly com- 

 posed of young, healthy and rapid growing trees. How to free the 

 forest of the cull hardwoods is the most pressing problem of manage- 

 ment. The hardwoods readily saleable have already been removed 

 in the second cutting. 



The forester has tried the experiment of putting the cull hardwoods 

 into cordwood. Although this was done during the war when the 

 demand for cordwood was better than the average, still the operation 

 was a loss financially. Utilization for cordwood appears impracticable 

 because of the long shipment to market, unless younger and sounder 

 trees are included in the cut. Such action would require nearly a clear 

 cut and would destroy the growing stock of young hardwood which 

 is more valuable for the third cut. 



Many of the cull trees contain some good material and it would 

 seem that a way of utilizing the sound portions might be developed. 

 Perhaps it could be found in a wood-working plant of small capacity 

 to run in connection with the property for the special purpose of 

 working up the cull hardwoods and the tops of good hardwoods now 

 left to waste in the woods. 



Such a plant requires skilled labor and a permanent community. 

 Skilled labor is exceedingly difficult to keep under the conditions of 

 isolation prevailing at Nehasane Park. Furthermore a permanent 

 community of laborers is exactly what is not wanted on a park of 

 this character. It is a good example of the influence which the purpose 

 of the owner exerts in determining the character of the work possible 

 on any tract. 



