Contents 



CHAPTER V 



PRACTICAL SYLVICULTURE OR REGENERATION OF WOODLOTS 

 Natural regeneration, 91 selection of system, 92 

 strip system, 94 group system, 96 coppice system, 

 96 direct seeding, 98 seeding and planting, 103 

 collecting and storing seeds, 107 the farm nursery, 

 112 growing coniferous seedlings, 112 growing broad- 

 leaf seedlings, 119 spring operations, 123 field plant- 

 ing of nursery stock, 126 treatment after planting, 129 

 woodlot plantations in mixture, 130 



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91-133 



CHAPTER VI 

 PRACTICAL SYLVICULTURE WORK IN THE WOODLOT 



Time of thinning, 143 kind of thinning, 146 re- 

 sults of thinnings, 149 



134-152 



CHAPTER VII 

 FOREST PROTECTION . . . . . . . 



Fire, 153 grazing, 160 mismanagement, 165 

 trespass, 166 windfall, 167 sunscald, 168 insects, 

 168 gypsy moth, 170 brown-tail moth, 171 pine- 

 destroying beetle, 174 spruce-destroying beetle, 175 

 elm-leaf beetle, 177 bronze birch borer, 178 forest 

 tent caterpillar, 179 fall web-worm, 180 the locust 

 borer, 181 



153-182 



CHAPTER VIII 

 FOREST MENSURATION . . . . . . . 



The unit of measurement, 183 allowance for defects 

 in scaling, 187 cordwood, 192 the height of a tree, 

 194 valuation survey, 196 stem analyses, 199 

 cruising methods, 200 



183-205 



