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have been tried and improved upon until in old lumbered regions, 

 such as the different sections of New England, it is probable that 

 the most economical system has been developed. To make any 

 radical change in methods so developed and long used would be 



Fig. 84. — Old field spruce type. Stand 5 years after a strip thinning. Looking 

 across the strips. The fallen trees are all tops or dead trees too small for pulp. Note 

 absence of brush. 



difficult; and as the method of logging usually has a vital bearing 

 on the possible silvicultural treatment of the forest it becomes 

 of the highest importance to know these methods and their effect 

 either as helping or making more difficult conservative cutting. 

 The object here is to outHne the logging methods, especially as 



