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open veterans over quite dense seedlings: 340 m. c. per hectare on the average of which 

 35 per cent is ripe timber. Compartments 5 and 9 comprise standards and large poles, 

 dense, regular, and in very fine condition, over seedling growth. 



(2) Remaining compartments cut over by improvement fellings (192.92 hectares). 

 The compartments 6, 11, 16, 17, 18 which are in the sapling and pole stage, with several 

 veteran stands regular and dense. 



Compartments 10, 14, 15, 19, 22 are mature, in fully stocked stands; dense with a 

 promising growth of a certain number of poles. 



The compartments 20, 21, 23, 24 comprise irregular poles and veterans with a certain 

 amount of scattering large timber over thick seedling growth and saplings. Generally 

 speaking the stands are growing well. While continuing to cut the mature timber 

 there should be no hesitation in thinning the poles so as to increase their growth. 



Art. 3. — Application of the yield. — The following table gives (in accordance 

 with the records at Pontarlier) the volume and the value of wood products realized in 

 the State forest of Grande Cote during the 15 years from 1897 to 1911. 



* Note large and varying amounts of "accidental products" — chiefly windfall. 

 The loss in timber, where a large area is cut over and then left for 40 or 50 years, as in 

 the western United States, must be very great, m. c. and also m.^ = cubic meters. 



From the preceding figures it seems that during the 15 years, the average annual 

 yield per hectare has been: 



3,252 



In material 



In money 



38,161 



8.52 cubic meters. 



161.58 francs ($12.47 per acre). 



Exploitation Balance Sheet. — In the 15 years 1897 to 1911 there should have 

 been cut 3,200 X 15 or 48,000 m. c; there was actually realized 48,790 or an excess of 

 790. This excess provided for the windfall of 1911. 



In order to include a period sufficiently long, we have compared the inventory of 1883 

 and the results of stocktaking of 1911, excluding the old compartment, 25 (now 27), 

 which was not enumerated in 1883. 



