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THE FORESTER. 



June, 



sary, but from the lumberman's point of 

 view it is to be made when in his judgment 

 that method will yield him the greatest 

 profit. Until within a comparatively few 

 years, it did not pay to cut clean, so that 

 lands logged over ten to twenty-five years 

 ago have a good deal of timber on them. 

 But with recent advances in price and 

 methods of utilizing young timber, many 

 lumbermen find it most profitable to cut 

 clean, thus leaving the ground practically 

 bare as it begins its new era. 



would not have been cut ten years ago now 

 finds a ready market, so that the result of 

 logging is to leave at best only a thin stand 

 of small or diseased timber. The actual 

 conditions are worse than this, however, 

 because the ground is strewn with great 

 quantities of waste logs and tops in which 

 successive fires find ready fuel and so, 

 burning periodically, prevent any seedlings 

 from developing. Meanwhile the grasses 

 come in in greater abundance and add ma- 

 terial for the flames (Fig. 3). 



FIG. 4. YOUNG LONGEEAF ("ORCHARD") PINE ON UND EOGGED-OVER TWENTY- 

 FIVE YEARS AGO. SHOWS SMAEE PINES ON MARGIN OF AREA EXPOSED TO 

 PERIODIC FIRES. TO THE RIGHT ARE GOOD TREES WHICH WERE 

 EEFT AFTER FIRST LOGGING, NOW READY FOR THE MIEE. 



This longleaf area is the center of a tre- 

 mendously active lumber business. The 

 market demand is strong, the prices good 

 and there is really very little to interrupt 

 active operations from the year's beginning 

 to its close. Under these circumstances, 

 the forest capital is being whittled down 

 at a rapid rate. As already stated, a great 

 deal of young or imperfect timber that 



The waste of material as a result of 

 logging operations is a deplorable thing, 

 and to none more than the lumbermen 

 themselves. There are instances in which 

 waste logs would appear to aggregate 

 nearly one-half of the total cut. This 

 means, of course, much diseased and im- 

 perfect timber. Still, such material would 

 be too gladly seized upon and will be when 



