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times to such as are diseased or stunted. These should be 

 removed. If the stand is too dense, in spite of the loss 

 of the numbers that have been killed off by competition, 

 it must be thinned out by hand. Otherwise the stems of 

 the young saplings would soon be too thin to support 

 their crowns. From 300 to 500 trees the number vary- 



A LESSON IN FORESTRY. 



ing with the species should cover an acre when the trees 

 are 50 years old. 



237. " Conserving the timber supply " does not mean that 

 timber should not be marketed, or that it should be kept 

 entirely for some future generation, but that it should be 

 used with due regard to the rights of the future. The 

 people living now are already feeling the scarcity of our 

 wood supply and its consequent rising price. It is un- 

 fair and unpatriotic to handicap the progress and well- 

 being of the farmers of to-morrow by depriving them of a 

 necessity. It is a civic duty to see to it that the period 



