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A PEIMEE OF FORESTRY. 



The measurements made by the Bureau of Forestry 

 have shown that the loss from cutting high stumps on 

 a tract of 100,000 acres in the Adirondacks, yielding 

 on an average 15 standards per acre, would be 30,000 

 standards, or at a stumpage value of 50 cents per stand- 

 ard, would be $15,000. 



FIG. 26. Protection of young growth in logging. Biltmore, N. C. 



The second thing to consider in felling a tree is how 

 to get it down without breaking or splitting the trunk. 

 On rocky, uneven ground this is often a hard thing 

 to do, but unless it can be accomplished the tree would, 

 as a rule, better be left untouched. 



Most important of all for the perpetuation of the 

 forest, each tree must be thrown where it will not 

 unnecessarily injure other trees or crush in its fall the 

 young seedlings on which the future of the forest 



