N. O. GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC 



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PLATE XVII. 



Stand shown in Plate XVI after a combined first cutting and improvement thinning. MOM of the knotty 

 dominant trees have been cut, leaving the stand formed entirely of slender, clean -stemmed codomi- 

 nant and intermediate trees. These, with increased diameter*, will yield from 3 to 3 Hi nearly 

 clear logs, which will saw out approximately the came type of wood a that shown in Plate IX-B. 

 More than 3,000 feet D.-S. per acre were removed from the stand in this rutting. The average log. 

 however, scaled less than 12 feet. (Author's illustration.) 



