LUMBERMEN SHOULD PRACTICE FORESTRY 131 



will produce profitable crops every season. He 

 fertilizes the soil and tills it so as to add to its 

 productive power. Similarly, our forests should 

 be worked so that they will yield successive crops 

 of lumber year after year. 



Lumbermen who own forests from which they 

 desire to harvest a timber crop should first of all 

 survey the woods, or have some experienced for- 

 ester do this work, to decide on what trees should 

 be cut and the best methods of logging to follow. 

 The trees to be cut should be selected carefully 

 and marked. The owner should determine how 

 best to protect the young and standing timber 

 during lumbering. He should decide on what 

 plantings he will make to replace the trees that 

 are cut. He should survey and estimate the fu- 

 ture yield of the forest. He should study the 

 young trees and decide about when they will be 

 ripe to cut and what they will yield. From this 

 information, he can determine his future income 

 from the forest and the best ways of handling 

 the woodlands. 



Under present conditions in this country, only 

 those trees should be cut from our forests which 

 are mature and ready for the ax. This means 

 that the harvest must be made under conditions 



