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on the same ground during a number of years, as is 
done in European regeneration cuttings and as would 
be necessary in the Adirondacks if the best possible 
reproduction were to be obtained without regard to 
expense, but each portion must be lumbered once for 
all, and the cutting must be so located that the repro- 
duction will take care of itself. 3 
It is essential to large companies with extensive 
milling plants that they should have a regular annual 
production of timber on which they can confidently 
rely. Such companies cannot afford to give up their 
business or to move their plants to new places as soon 
as the tributary land is exhausted. Forest management 
must secure for them a sustained annual yield by a 
suitable distribution of the cutting and by enabling 
them to cut the same land a second time in a reasonably 
short period. On the other hand a private individual 
or a club owning a small tract would in many, if not in 
most cases, prefer to cut the entire tract at once and 
then wait the required period before cutting a second 
time. 
Technically it will do no harm to the forest to lumber 
it. entirely in one year, provided due care is taken 
to spare the small trees and to secure reproduction. 
On the contrary, it will place the whole tract at once 
in a condition favorable for rapid growth, whereas 
if some portions were left uncut for 15, 20, or 25 years, 
they would remain for that time in the condition of the 
virgin forest, where the decay and growth are about 
equal, and would thus be producing nothing. Further, 
