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sales. When trade is brisk and there exists a good demand, there is no 

 better way of disposing of a mixed lot of timber, but when trade is de- 

 pressed, there is a difficulty in getting buyers to attend, and one runs the 

 risk of failure. Buying in at an auction sale is always a delicate matter, 

 as one has to meet the buyers another day. * * * 



''* * * During this time (second decade) we disposed of 94,422 feet 

 of timber. The total sum realized from the woods during the same period 

 being $1 5,375- * * * This is an average per acre per annum of about 

 $4.30. With 5,688 feet more than in the previous decade, we realized 

 $9,940 less in price. * * * Well, with such a demonstration before us, 

 what was the best policy to adopt with regard to the management of 

 woods? Should we decide to cut down no more trees, until prices ad- 

 vanced to a more remunerative level? For three or four years one may 

 adopt that plan without serious injury. But to continue this course for 

 an indefinite number of years is, of course, out of the question. * * * 



"* * * jjj Qyj. third decade the total quantity of timber sold was 75,- 

 184 feet, which realized $16,730. The quantity was 19,000 feet less than in 

 the previous ten years, and the price $i,34S more. * * * The average 

 amount realized per acre per annum about $5. 



"* * * In the fourth decade, the sales amounted to 70,043 feet, the 

 price realized being $16,705. 



"The gross quantity of timber felled for sale during forty consecutive 

 annual thinnings is 328,743 feet, the average per year being just over 8,200 

 feet, the average sum received per year being $1,850. * * * 



"Some readers may be anxious to know in what condition the woods are 

 at present, as to the crop they carry. The whole of the woods at the 

 present time are well stocked with trees of various sizes, and, taken as a 

 whole, have as large a quantity in feet of saleable timber as they had 40 

 years ago. 



"I should, perhaps, state, in regard to young plantations formed since 

 1880 on land formerly under farm crops, that no credit has been taken in 

 the report for produce sold from such plantations. * * * 



"The pecuniary returns from woods is the aspect in which they are of 

 most importance to most landed proprietors and to the country at large, 

 and anything that can be done by arboricultural societies in getting reli- 

 able figures as to results of management will help on the arboricultural in- 

 terests of the country more certainly than any other lines they can work 

 on." 



Those who take the trouble to read these extracts, or to refer 

 to the original article, may be reminded that we have perhaps gone 

 somewhat astray in taking Continental European forestry, 

 especially German, as our sole model and ignoring the really in- 

 tensive management of the English, and in some cases of the 

 French. The territory within which woodlot forestry, as dis- 

 tinguished from timber growing, may be practiced is steadily in- 

 creasing. Density of population forces back and further back 

 the forests in which exploiting lumbermen may be interested. In 

 a large part of the South as well as of the Northeast therefore 

 we shall miss the chief opportunities for forestry if the woodlots 

 are ignored. For let it be emphasized that the aggregate output 

 of the woodlots of the Eastern and Central United States is now 



