CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER I. THE PRACTICE OF FORESTRY 7 



The service of the forest 7 



The uses of the forest 8 



Four requirements for the best service 11 



The yield of a forest 14 



Silvicultural systems 18 



Simple coppice 19 



Stored coppice 21 



Seed or high forest 22 



Regular seed forest 23 



Two-storied seed forest 27 



Selection forest 28 



Localized selection 30 



The group system 33 



The strip system 35 



Improvement cuttings 36 



CHAPTER II. WORK IN THE WOODS 38 



Conservative lumbering 40 



Conservative lumbering and ordinary lumbering. . 41 



Felling the trees 42 



Swamping and sawing 45 



Skidding 47 



Transportation 49 



At the mills 51 



Waste in lumbering 53 



Planting 54 



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