44 A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



The measurements made by the Bureau of Forest ry 

 have shown that the loss from cutting high stumps on 

 a tract of loo.ooO acres in the Adirondacks, yielding 

 on an average L."> standards per acre, would be 30.000 

 standards, or at a stumpage value of 50 cents per stand- 

 ard, would be $15,000. 



FIL. 'JC>. I'mtcctioii ot' yonnfj growth in l<i?, r srinj;. Biltmoiv. N. ('. 



The second thing to consider in felling a tree is how 

 to get it down without breaking or splitting the trunk. 

 On rocky, uneven ground this is often a hard thing 

 to do. but unlessitcan be accomplished the tree would. 

 B a rule, better be left untouched. 



Most important of all for the perpetuation of the 

 forest, each tree must be thrown where it will not 

 unncer arily injure other trees or cn\<\\ in its fall the 

 young seedling> on which the future of the foresf 



