SAMUEL T. DANA ON THE FOREST PROBLEM 107 



ordinary, every-day questions that pulp and paper companies in 

 the northeast are up against. 



A box company with an annual cut of 4,000,000 board feet owns 

 2000 acres of land in central New England. This consists in part 



Comparison of annual growth per acre in cubic feet in the United States and other countries. 



of nearly pure white pine stands of various ages, in part of cut-over 

 lands coming up to a mixture of pine, inferior hardwoods and vari- 

 ous shrubs, and in part of cut- and burned-over lands covered with 

 almost pure gray birch. Shall the company cut the white pine 

 stands clean, shall it remove them in two cuttings or shall it leave 

 seed trees? How fast will the new stands grow on sites of differ- 

 ent quality? To what extent should the young pine stands be 



