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subdivide, map, and measure his land and timber, to plan 

 where, what, and how much to cut and plant, to improve 

 by roads, ditches, and otherwise, all these mean to 

 regulate his forest. We have here, then, a simple form 

 of forest administration and regulation. 



When this forest grows to twenty-five thousand acres, 

 in perhaps thirty pieces, the owner needs several perma- 

 nent foresters who know what to do and how to do it. 

 Each of these men takes a portion of this land and car- 

 ries on the business, making reports at regular times to 

 the owner, or his office, so that the owner, like a store- 

 keeper, knows every day about how his forest business 

 stands. Thus, forest administration and regulation, up to 

 certain limits, grow in complexity as the forest grows 

 larger and more diversified, and both are necessary for 

 order and good business. 



SPECIAL KINDS OF FORESTS 



So far we have been considering forests in general, but 

 there are a few important cases which deserve special 

 attention. 



THE WOOD LOT 



The farmer's small forest of twenty to forty acres is 

 often entirely neglected, as a thing neither forest nor 

 field and hardly worth paying any attention to. And 



