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period of that length to produce a high yield of good quality 

 timber. The material grown should be saw timber, for use in 

 various woodworking industries. 



2. White Cedar Swamp. — This is a type which has not been 

 sufficiently studied from the management standpoint. A system 

 of clear cutting in strips seems best adapted to the type. Where 

 windfirm, individuals can be found clear cutting with scattered 

 seed trees should give satisfactory results. In the swamp where 

 white cedar is in pure stands these methods of cutting should 

 insure cedar reproduction. Where soft maple is present it will 

 be apt to compete with the cedar. It is still an open question 

 whether stands of the slow-growing but more valuable cedar will 

 give better financial returns than the much more rapid-growing 

 soft maple, which, however, yields nothing but cordwood. The 

 soft maple may prove upon further study an equally good or 

 better tree to favor than the white cedar. 



3. Pitch Pine. — The great need of lands in this type is for 

 protection. From its situation on dry sandy soils it is exposed 

 to frequent fires, but when these are stopped reproduction is 

 easily secured. While the soils of the type are all poor sands 

 there are two degrees of poverty which need recognition. One 

 of these includes the very deepest and poorest sands, and are 

 best suited for the production of pitch pine or some pine of 

 similar soil and moisture requirements, as the Scotch pine; the 

 other soil is not so poor naturally, but has been burned over so 

 frequently that pitch pine has replaced better species like white 

 pine, which could grow on these sites. 



The first class of soils will have to be managed for pitch 

 pine. It can be easily reproduced under any of the systems of 

 clear cutting with natural reproduction. The scattered seed 

 tree method is especially recommended. There seems to be no 

 reason why red or Scotch pine would not thrive on the pitch 

 pine soils. These would produce a much better grade of 

 lumber and give a higher yield per acre. The extreme south- 

 eastern portion of the white pine region may be too different 

 climatically from the commercial range of the red pine to war- 



