34 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULLETIN NO. 484. 



Successive cuttings. — If the plan is adopted of making a gradual 

 conversion of the stand from hardwoods to pine, the first cutting may 

 be made on the same general plan as at Dover, but should remove 

 not over 40 per cent of the total number of trees present, because 

 this stand is much less dense. 



The result upon this stand appears in the following table: 



Stand and cutting tabic, Exeter, N. If. Mixed or/7,- stand, three-tenths white oak. 



Trees which control, if in 

 sufficient numbers. 



Class I: 



Red oak 



Black oak 



White oak 



Gray birch 



Large-tooth aspen. 

 Beech 



Original stand. 



Trees which 



control on 



this lot. 



Red oak. . . 

 Black oak.. 

 White oak. 



Class II: 



White pine. 

 Pitch pine. 



Class III: 



Red maple. 



Class TV: 

 None. 



Other species present, 



Gray birch 



Large-tooth aspen 



Beech 



Apple 



White pine. 

 Pitch pine. . 



Number 

 per acre. 



0) 



Red maple... 

 Yellow birch. 

 Black birch.. 



Hickory 



Black cherry. 

 Elm 



0) 



(') 



0) 



(') 



Number per acre left under 

 two plans proposed. 



1. Radical 

 conver- 

 sion — one 

 cutting 

 (now). 



2. Gradual conver- 

 sion—successive 

 cuttings. 



First 

 (now). 



(') 



0) 



0) 



166 



Second 

 (in 5 to 

 10 years). 



0) 



0) 

 (') 



> Less than one tree per acre. 



Planting should at once follow the first cutting. Red or white 

 pine, 1,000 to the acre, may also be used here, but a larger part of 

 the area is suitable for white ash. It is possible that on sites of this 

 character a mixture of 5 per cent of tulip tree or white ash with the 

 pine would be advantageous. White ash may also be planted pure 

 on deep moist soils in areas not exceeding one-half acre in extent. 



The time of making the second cutting and the need of a second 

 planting will be determined by the same considerations as at Dover. 



The product of the first cutting will be cordwood, 7 or 8 cords per 

 acre, and, unless tops and limbs are burned, 3 or 4 cords of poor cord- 

 wood worth less than it cost to cut. 



The costs of cutting and of planting should not differ much from 

 those at Dover, and for the same reasons which apply there the first 

 of the two plans proposed is preferable from considerations of forest 

 management, of moth control, and of minimum expense. 



