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FORESTRY IN NEW ENGLAND 



qualities, too many plots of Quality III being taken in young 

 stands and too few in old stands to give average figures. These 

 figures are too low for ordinary conditions and the New Hamp- 

 shire or Massachusetts yields should be given the preference. 

 Except for the closest utilization and best stands it will be safer 

 to employ the New Hampshire figures or an average of the New 



Fig. no. — The pine and iulLiiu; haiLi.'.uvv,;, i\i,L. Iilil .wu^iJM.ci u. Auiu- pine, gray birch, 

 poplar, soft maple, and alder. The pine is getting ahead of the hardwoods but has 

 grown in too open a stand to make first quality lumber. 



Hampshire and Massachusetts figures, rather than the latter 

 figures alone. 



An idea quite commonly held is that the dense even-aged 

 stands of white pine for the first fifty to sixty years of their life 

 yield only boxboard material. This, however, is a fallacy, as 

 stands less than fifty years old yield much material better than 

 the boxboard grade. There is Httle clear lumber, but it contains 

 small sound knots, which do not unfit it for many purposes other 

 than boxboards. The poorest boards only should be classed as 

 boxboards. 



5. Pine and Inferior Hardwoods. — In area this is the second 

 or third in importance, but in commercial value it is subordinate 



