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sown with from 800 to 900 kilograms of conifer tree seed. 

 The planting of forest trees takes place on the com- 

 pany's land on a small scale and only where strong growth 

 of grass hinders the growth of young forests. That is 

 usual on good spruce land. There are planted four-year- 

 old transplants from four to five feet apart, so that the 

 number of plants on a tunnland (1.22 acres) varies be- 

 tween 2,250 and 3,500. The average number of trees 

 standing on an acre at the time of cutting is very differ- 

 ent, depending on previous cuttings. To more fully 

 answer this question as to old forest on gravelly land 

 which has not been subjected to other cuttings than the 

 thinning of too crowded trees and cuttings of defective 

 trees, the number of trees on two tracts, each of two and 

 a half acres extent, have been counted with the following 

 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 n inches, 44 of 12 inches, 53 of 13 inches, 

 40 of 1 4 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 130 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 1 1 inches, 73 pines and 3 spruces 1 2 

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

 inches, 14 pines 15 inches, 9 pines 16 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, 



