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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



May, 



fee of fifty cents a month guarantees 

 the men hospital treatment when laid 

 up. As a business proposition this firm 

 has realized that the good health of the 

 men is essential to success. That they 

 act upon this is shown by the fact that 

 spring water is piped to three of the 

 summer camps in preference to using 

 the brook water. 



Every detail points to the care and 

 thoroughness of their lumbering. There 

 is no waste timber left in the woods. 

 All side logs, stringers, and slew skids 

 are hauled out when the roads are aban- 



at the same time improve the future 

 value of the land. Some system is ab- . 

 solutely necessary if the land is to be 

 held. If they should wish to sell, they 

 would get a higher price with the land 

 well stocked with j^oung growth. At 

 present the clear-cutting system includes 

 the stunted growth on the mountain 

 tops. If this growth were left, little 

 lumber would be lost, and it would 

 insure reproduction. The steep slopes 

 and high wind would play an important 

 part in the natural sowing. Under the 

 present system the groups of spruce 



I.UMBER CAMPS NEAR NORTH WOODSTOCK, N. H. 



doned. The skid way logs are peeled 

 for protection against borers, so that 

 they can be converted later on. The 

 movable camps and stables, the govern- 

 ment and care of the men, the good 

 road and switch-back systems are evi- 

 dences of economical and careful lum- 

 bering. While their lumbering shows 

 great skill and business ability, yet there 

 is no provision for the future. They 

 are not letting the cut-over land go for 

 taxes, and yet the future growth is not 

 considered. By some moderate and 

 simple system of forestry it is believed 

 that the firm could realize heavily and 



(left to protect the roads against snow) 

 are cut last. Should these groups prove 

 windfirm, their removal might be de- 

 layed a 3^ear or so in the chance of 

 their aiding reproduction. In the Ad- 

 irondacks a strip or patch system 

 is used on this type of spruce slopes. 

 By modifying these sj^stems as above 

 suggested, it is reasonably certain that 

 the financial requirements would not 

 be interfered with, and that the fu- 

 ture value of the land would be in- 

 creased. With the enormous demand 

 for pulp wood, every owner should plan 

 for the future. 



