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planting he will be able to cut one acre every year 

 and just keep the balance even. In Germany such a 

 method is often carried out in exact detail, but in 

 this country, where the ages of the trees on a given 



Telegraph poles, fence posts, railway ties and cord wood represent a few 

 of the products of the farm wood-lot. 



tract of land are usually not so evenly balanced to 

 begin with, it becomes a matter of estimating the 

 rate of growth. Simple methods have been devised 

 whereby the volume of wood on a given tract can 

 be readily figured from time to time as a check upon 

 the operations, and most successful wood-lots have 



