CARE AND PROTECTKIN OF TPIE FOREST 101 



better if the majority of little plants were taken out or 

 destroyed before they are a foot high. To do this well 

 would cost too much, and the forester usually leaves the 

 thicket to itself until it is about twenty years old, when lie 

 thins it out in much tlie same way as descril)ed above. 



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To get a better idea as to how much ought to )je cut 

 it may be said that for pine on good pine land there ought 

 not to be left more than ten trees on one square rod at the 

 age of twenty, four at forty, two at sixty, and one at a 

 hundred years, as tabulated on the following page. 



