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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



storms are strong enough to break the trees they can 

 not overthrow. Damage from wind is not uncommon 

 in many parts of the United States, and in plac.es the 



loss from ifiis very serious. 

 (See figs. 69, 70.) Near 

 the town of High Springs, 

 for example, in Alachua 

 County, Fla., in a region 

 very subject to such acci- 

 dents, there is a tract of 

 many square miles, once 

 covered with Longleaf 

 Pine, over which practi- 

 cally all the trees were 

 killed by a great storm sev- 

 eral years ago. Some were 

 thrown flat, some were so 

 racked and so broken'in the 

 top that they died, and very 

 many were snapped off at 



FIG. 71.-A young Spruce loaded with fl>OU1 15 to 30 feet ab Ve the 

 snow. Avalanche Lake, Adirondack ground. There 18 little 



Mountains, New York. 



precautioil8 



against such great calamities, yet the loss from windfall 

 may be very much reduced by judicious cutting. An 

 unbroken forest is least exposed. 



SNOW IX THE FOREST. 



Snow often loads down, breaks, and crushes tall 

 young trees, especially if wet snow falls heavily be- 

 fore the broadleaf trees have shed their foliage in the 

 fall. Such injury is difficult to guard against, bat it 

 is well to know that very slim, tall trees suffer more 

 than those whose growth in diameter and height have 



