CHAPTER IV. 



FOREST PLANTING AND SEEDING. 



The essential difference between forestry and lumbering lies 

 in the measures taken when harvesting timber to make provision 

 for a second growth. We have described the various silvicul- 

 tural methods by which this may be brought about. It often 



Fig. 20. — One-year-old white pine seedlings grown for forest planting. 



happens that these attempts are not wholly successful and large 

 gaps occur in the young stand. These are as much to be deplored 

 in good forest management as they would be in raising corn or 

 tobacco, and in addition to the natural methods it is necessary 

 to resort to artificial means of stocking. Among these methods 

 clear cutting with artificial reproduction was described. Under 

 this system planting or sowing is depended upon entirely for the 

 new stand. 



In all parts of the country there is land once used for agricul- 

 ture, which was either unsuited for that purpose or has become 



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