6 FOREST REGULATION 



etc. The whole document, with maps, is submitted to the upper 

 office, approved, copied, and one copy kept at the Forester's office 

 to serve as directions for the next 20 years' work. 



Here then is a forest business, where lands, for the most part 

 inferior for agriculture, have been made into an enterprise paying 

 a net rental of $9.00 per acre and more, with an income value, at 

 3%, therefore, of over $300 per acre. The systematic work, the 

 faithful following of a well conceived plan, has given to this forest 

 certain advantages which the best of Silviculture alone, could not 

 have accomplished. It has established order, it has produced a 

 regularity in the age of the different stands (in the age classes) 

 which alone assures a regular yearly cut of timber. This same 

 regularity also assures that the timber which is cut here is of the 

 proper age, i. e., of the size desired. By a systematic, well planned 

 cutting and prompt replanting, the stands of different age are 

 properly mixed or distributed in the forest, and thus accidents pre- 

 vented and the dangers reduced. Through the division into small 

 lots and into small independent woods (Cutting Series) Silviculture 

 is given a chance to get at a stand in any time and way required, 

 without starting trouble which might spread over hundreds of acres. 



Having good Silviculture and the regularity of age classes 

 brought about through systematic cutting, the growth on this forest 

 both in volume and quality is about as large as Site and Species 

 permit, since there are no old, overripe, and defective stands which 

 would make little or no growth. Moreover, this same regularity 

 assures this growth, and a regular yearly income on the smallest 

 amount of timber capital upon which, under these conditions, this 

 growth and income can be made. 



Regulation, together with good Silviculture, has made here a 

 splendid property, with a large income and has made it as safe an 

 investment as a forest property can well become. A well planned 

 and well built system of roads have made it possible to utilize every- 

 thing to good advantage and easily doubled the stumpage value of 

 every tree in the forest. Without this, the material cut in thinnings 

 would be mostly valueless, and even the old stands would have to 

 be cut in much larger bodies to pay in logging. 



But. while the present good conditions of this forest are due, 

 in a large measure, to Regulation or the orderly business-like treat- 

 ment of this property, it niust not be supposed that it was due to 



