Science now 



entering 



the woods 



Moving camp in the South. It requires experience to cope with the widely 

 varied conditions we are called upon to meet. 



With the diameter limit idea came also the rules for economy 

 in cutting: low stumps, small tops, sparing of the smaller 

 individuals of valuable species when making bridges, skidways 

 and camps; careful scaling, clean picking up on penalty of 

 payment for cut lumber left. Even without technical aid 

 there has been this tendency among thoughtful owners and 

 operators to develop and conserve the forests along lines in 

 which scientific forestry effects its greatest results. 



Until a few years ago lumbering was almost the only large 

 semi-engineering industry into which the services of specially 

 trained and educated men had not been called. 



Now, the application of science to lumbering is being worked 

 out, and under systematic management the forest is being 

 cut with the idea of both continuing and improving the tree 

 holdings operated upon. Specially trained men give exact 

 advice on handling, and that advice is being followed with 

 profit. The engineer is aiding the lumberman just as he aids 

 the miner. Under his guidance an exact science of lumbering 

 may be discerned as a future possibility. Such lumbering will 

 get the greatest real profit from each piece of land. Land that 

 is unfit for agriculture will be kept under timber, and the wood 

 crops on such lands will be harvested at proper intervals and in 

 the proper way. Land that is particularly fit for agriculture 

 will be cleared and devoted to it, and in this way the country 

 will approach maximum production, a condition which today 

 is only a dream of the future. 



