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belts approximately twenty feet wide, uncut. This removes 

 one-third of the timber and has the effect of admitting light to 

 the forest floor. The result of this increased light is that spruce 

 seedlings spring up in the alleyways and under the standing trees. 



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Fig. 80. — Reproduction on a small cutting in the old field spruce type 



Within ten years a good reproduction should have started, and 

 the old timber can then be cut clear. 



In cutting the trees in the strips they can all be easily felled 

 into and hauled out along the alleyways. A good yield of pulp- 

 wood results, which makes the operation profitable financially 

 as well as silviculturally. 



This system was devised and first tried in 1903, by T. S. Wool- 

 sey, Jr., on a New Hampshire tract, with satisfactory results; 



