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Vigorous species may be merely set in holes made with a grubbing 

 hoe. Areas which are already naturally partly wooded with good 

 species may need additional planting in the open or thinner places. 

 This must be done by hand and the spade or grubbing hoe should 

 be used. 



Management and Harvest. Some of the crop from the 

 wood lot will be ready to harvest much sooner than many are 

 likely to expect. Where much of the forest is planted by nature, 

 there will be considerable thinning of leaning or otherwise poor 

 growth. The growth from green stumps, called coppice growth, 



FIG. 250. Buckets catching sap from spouts in sugar maple trees. (U. S. D. A.) 



will usually be too crowded and must be thinned. Storms will 

 make some cutting necessary. 



The early harvest of young timber may be useful as fuel ; some 

 can be used for barrel hoops ; some for broom, hoe and rake handles, 

 and some for rustic seats and other furniture. 



In any plantation, whether planted by nature or by man, 

 attention must be given to the harvesting of sickly, injured, or 

 mature trees before they are seriously attacked by bark beetles 

 or other forest insects. This will prevent the rapid multiplication 

 of the insects and help to save the healthy trees. 



The experienced woodsman will soon learn to study the loca- 



