REPORT ON FORESTS. 



in 



now produced. Further, the timber now found is coarse and 

 knotty and fit for nothing better than cordwood, while in dense 

 stands the trees are straight and clear of knots. 



The burned land represented by the acres in Table 3 is then 

 producing about one-third of the volume it would if protected 

 from fire, and about one-sixth of what it is capable of yielding 

 under careful management, while in quality and price the wood 

 is very much inferior to the product of a healthy forest on the 

 same ground. 



Summary of Forty-nine Valuation Surveys, Showing the Dete- 

 rioration of the Forest Through the Effects of Fire. 



Table J. 



ORIGINAL FOREST. 



