FORESTRY SURVEY 265 



The oak upland is, as usual, the most abundant type 

 covering at least 75 per cent of the timbered area. Occa- 

 sionally the grazing is not heavy yet there are no in- 

 stances of good reproduction in progress. The large block 

 in Section 33 has been heavily culled in the past but now 

 has a fairly good stand of mixed white, black and red oak 

 with an occasional hickory, the sizes running from 6 to 

 10 inches for the greater portion of the area, with some 

 clumps of larger trees in the outskirts. 



There is here a rather rank undergrowth in which sun- 

 flowers, thoroughwort, I^ew Jersey tea, bitter sweet of 

 shrubby habit, (Celastrus) and hazel-nut are conspicuous, 

 ous. 



A tract of about 4 acres, north of the Fox River, in Sec- 

 tion 35, seems to be practically ungrazed. In the eastern 

 part of the same section are some good stands of second 

 growth white oak 2 to 8 inches across covering some 10 

 acres. Here, too, along a tributary ravine a much culled 

 forest has recently been swept by a cyclone overturning 

 most of the trees spared by the choppers. 



The steep slopes of the stream valleys have a mixed 

 stand with Arbor vitae, red cedar, an occasional white 

 pine, hop hornbeam and service berry on the more exposed 

 portions and oak, maple and basswood on more sheltered 

 slopes. Where much cutting has thinned the trees such 

 shrubs as black haw (Tihurnum priini folium) and sumac 

 constituted much of the scrub cover. Many of these 

 steeper slopes gully badly when the tree cover has been 

 removed. 



Dayton Township (Map IV.) 



The parts of the township included in this report are 

 Sections 1, 12, 13, 21, 25 and 36 and the eastern half of 

 Sections 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 35, Range 3 East and Sec- 

 tions 3 (in part), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in Range 4 East which 

 together comprises about 15 square miles. The timber 

 soils are here developed on the right bank of the Fox River 

 and in connection with its tributaries Indian, Crooked Leg 

 and Buck Creeks. These soils cover rather more than one- 

 third of that part of the township under consideration 

 or approximately 2900 acres, 450 acres being forested. It 

 is certain that a survey of the remainder of the township 

 will add very little to the forest covered area. 



