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best suited for well-settled regions where intensive management 

 can be practiced. 



The simplest form of this system, and the only one that can be 

 applied with crude market conditions, is to remove the stand in 

 two cuttings about twenty years apart. The first, intended to 

 give opportunity for reproduction to start, is called the "seed 



By permission of the U. S. Forest Sendee. 



Fig. 10. — Reproduction of white pine under the shelter of a mature stand. 



or reproduction cutting," and removes about 75 per cent of 

 the merchantable timber. Ten to twenty years later the second 

 or "final cutting " removes the remainder of the old stand. 



The maturest and least thrifty timber is selected for the first 

 cutting, while thrifty trees and good seed producers are the kind 

 retained for the final cutting. These trees should be left dis- 

 tributed over the areas as uniformly as possible. 



With the better market conditions which prevail in portions 

 of New England, one of the more intensive forms, such as have 



