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having the timber marked by men who 

 are well versed in forestry, the Company 

 hope to preserve the young growth to 

 better advantage than by leaving the 

 selection of trees which are to be cut 

 to the men who are doing the work. 

 On the slopes where there is a solid 

 growth of spruce the timber is cut clean, 

 the trees themselves being trimmed and 

 utilized down to four and five inches 

 at the top end. When land is cut in 

 this way if there is no source of natural 

 reseeding by standing timber which will 

 distribute the seed nor any small growth 

 coming in, it will be planted in one or 

 two years after logging operations are 

 over with nursery stock grown at the 

 Company's own nurseries. 



The Company had never before had 

 any marking done for the workmen in 

 cutting timber, but this system is being 

 practiced this year on all the logging 

 operations of the International Paper 

 Company. We expect that this will re- 

 sult in a great saving of the young 

 growth and also in cutting the timber 

 closer to the ground and into the tops 

 as the same men who do the marking 

 go over the cuttings from time to time 

 and in addition to this they have a fore- 



man who goes over the cuttings and 

 who also looks after these details and in 

 this way the Company expects practi- 

 cally to eliminate any waste. This sys- 

 tem of cutting is applied entirely to 

 timberlands on which there is a mixed 

 growth of spruce and hardwood and on 

 which there has been very little or no 

 logging. On lands which have once 

 been cleared and have come into spruce, 

 which is called second growth or field 

 spruce, the only system which is practi- 

 cal is to cut the timber into four foot 

 wood, then let the timber grow until it 

 is large enough for pulpwood and cut 

 again clean. There are often on these 

 tracts of land where four foot wood is 

 cut, of the field variety of spruce, a 

 sufficient number of seed trees, which 

 are called bull spruce, and which we 

 never cut, as they are rough and knotty 

 and unfit for pulpwood. These trees 

 will again seed the land into spruce, 

 under favorable conditions, but when 

 this is not possible it must be replanted 

 to again get back into growing spruce. 

 The purchases of timberland in re- 

 cent years by the Champlain Realty 

 Company have nearly all been of the 

 second growth or field spruce timber, as 



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