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Indeed, the lands now cleared for farming, with few exceptions, 

 were formerly occupied by forests of the hardwood type. In 

 other cases the sites now occupied by the type are too rocky or 

 steep to warrant their use for agricultural purposes. 



Fig. 92. — The hardwood type in the Berkshires. A mature stand of yellow and paper 

 birch, oak and a Httle chestnut. Excellent reproduction of white ash, birch and oak 

 is already on the ground. The stand should be cut clear. 



The hardwood type is almost identical with the same type of 

 the spruce region, having much the same composition and occu- 

 pying the same kind of site. But from being a type of secondary 

 importance it becomes, in the northern hardwoods region, the 



