CONTENTS 



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DEFINITIONS vii 



CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 



1. The basis of management i 



2. Various objects of management .... i 



3. Choice of species 2 



4. Choice of silvicultural method 3 



5. Choice of rotation 3 



CHAPTER II. FIRST PRINCIPLES. 



6. Time element in forestry. The wood-capital . . 5 



7. The normal forest 7 



8. Relation between wood-capital and increment . 8 



CHAPTER III. MENSURATION AND INCREMENT. 



9. The quarter-girth convention 10 



10. Commercial method of estimating standing timber n 



11. True measure of standing timber . . . . 12 



12. Weise's method of rinding the average tree . . 15 



13. Increment . . 15 



14. Increment of felled trees. Stem -analysis . . 16 



15. Increment of standing trees . . . . . 17 



16. Pressler's formula 18 



17. Schneider's formula 19 



1 8. Breymann's formula 19 



19. Increment of whole crops 20 



20. Yield-tables 22 



CHAPTER IV. FIELD WORK. 



21. Preliminary examination of the area . 23 



22. General description of crop 24 



23. The block 24 



24. The compartment 25 



25. The sub-compartment 25 



26. Description of compartments 26 



27. Collection of statistical data 26 



28. Formation of working-circles 27 



29. Formation of felling-series 27 



