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result: First tract, average pine land, pure stand of 

 pine; average age, 135 years; average height, 85 feet; 

 diameter measured 5 feet from ground. There were 

 found 8 trees with diameter of 5 inches, 13 of 6 inches, 

 20 of 7 inches, 27 of 8 inches, 34 of 9 inches, 42 of 10 

 inches, 44 of 1 1 inches, 44 of 12 inches, 53 of 13 inches, 

 40 of 14 inches, 30 of 15 inches, 16 of 16 inches, n of 

 17 inches, 3 of 18 inches, 2 of 19 inches; total, 385 trees, 

 containing 9,178 cubic feet. Second tract, good pine 

 land; young spruce successively grown up; pine of aver- 

 age age of 1 30 years and average height 85 feet; there 

 were found 3 pines and 37 spruces 5 inches in diameter, 

 44 pines and 58 spruces 6 inches, 61 pines and 37 spruces 

 7 inches, 77 pines and 28 spruces 8 inches, 76 pines and 

 ii spruces 9 inches, 82 pines and 7 spruces 10 inches, 83 

 pines and 6 spruces 11 inches, 73 pines and 3 spruces 12 

 inches, 53 pines and i spruce 13 inches, 30 pines 14 

 inches, 14 pines 15 inches, 9 pines 1 6 inches, 5 pines 17 

 inches, i pine 19 inches, 2 pines 20 inches (in diameter); 

 total, 613 pines and 188 spruces, in all 12,013 cubic feet. 



Thus were found about 300 trees left per ' 'tunnland' * 

 of about 5,300 cubic feet, which, according to an average 

 age of 133 years, shows a yearly average growth of 40 

 cubic feet per "tunnland" (1.22 acres). If, on the other 

 hand, timber cutting is done once or twice before the 

 final cutting, as is usual, the number of trees at the last 

 is much less. To prevent forest fires, during very dry 

 weather, strict watch is kept by 30 forest guards and by 

 extra ones, and in addition all of the company's depen- 

 dents are obliged, when a forest fire breaks out, to send 

 notice to the forest guard or forest manager and assist in 

 extinguishing it. Generally the precautions are effective 

 in preventing such fires. No forest fire worthy of men- 

 tion has occurred in twenty years. 



The company's land has been used for forest more than 



