THE ADIRONDACK BLACK SPRUCE. 



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accordance with instructions from the Superintendent, meas- 

 ured off a tract of four acres, situated in the forest in which he 

 made the measurements and other memoranda embodied in Tables 

 I and II, and noted all the other trees growing there in company 

 with the spruce. These notes are embodied in Table III. This 

 forest is located in the south part of Township 14 (" Bloomfield "), 

 Town of Fine, St. Lawrence county. It stands on the north 

 slope of a hill, the spruce being thickly interspersed with hard- 

 woods maple, beech, and yellow birch (Betula lutea). The 

 land on which the timber stands has an elevation of about 1.800 

 feet above the sea. 



The four acres which furnish the statistics in the following 

 table represent the maximum yield of spruce per acre, the tim- 

 ber being far above the average in size, height and quantity. 

 The spruce on this piece of four acres not including trees less 

 than twelve inches in diameter will yield 60,000 feet of logs, 

 or 15,000 feet to the acre. This is a remarkable exhibit ; and, in 

 addition to the spruce, the figures indicate 18,000 feet of hemlock 

 on these four acres, or 4,500 feet per acre. The average quan- 

 tity of spruce per acre throughout the Adirondack forests, on 

 large tracts, is estimated at 3,000 feet per acre, and some town- 

 ships have yielded as low as 2,500. 



TABLE III. 



COMPOSITION OF FOREST ON FOUR ACRES. 

 S. W. J, Township 14, Town of Fine, St. Lawrence County' 



