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there is on the property about 54,000 feet of hemlock, so that it 

 will be evident that a fair-sized timber operation is under way, 

 and one which will illustrate, we hope, the advantages of a scientific 

 method of cutting, — a statement which becomes particularly 

 forcible when it is added that a probable net profit of about $7,000 

 will be realized and the stand left in better growing shape at the 

 conclusion of the work than it was in the beginning. 



The operation of this lot is now in progress and the work is 

 Hearing completion, a large number of the logs being yarded and 

 ready for the mill. This office hopes in the near future to publish 

 a bulletin describing in some detail this operation, and several 

 others recently handled in much the same way. 



The other map referred to combines an outline survey with 

 timber and topographic map in colors, and, like the above, is 

 accompanied by an estimate. The property is owned by Prof. 

 C. S. Plumb of Columbus, O., and consists of 450 acres of land 

 in Becket, Mass., most of which is growing some kind of timber. 

 Mr. Plumb has become much interested in the property, and we 

 hope by judicious forestry management to eventually establish a 

 good working forest proposition. To this end the owner expects 

 to turn over 10 acres of the open land, and probably more event- 

 ually, for forest planting. This will supply the immediate need 

 for young growth, and if continued at intervals will provide con- 

 stantly growing timber of different ages. About all the other 

 stages of growth are now represented by timber on the ground, 

 although the proportions vary greatly, as is to be expected in any 

 natural stand. 



If our plans are followed, however, instead of eventually being 

 obliged to cut practically all the timber and leave the ground bare, 

 by the time the present medium growth is mature there will be a 

 fine stand of much better quality coming on. 



Thus the ideal of all forest management will be approached, 

 viz., a continuous, periodical, sustained yield, without diminution 

 of the capital stock of timber. 



All the maps referred to have been preserved in duplicate for 

 our files by means of tracings, thus doubUng the work but greatly 

 increasing the usefulness of the maps. 



