AUl^X AM.OTMKXT 



143 



Etc., etc. This is continued for all lots of the forest. 



Total have ; 

 Should have : 



470 

 800 



1 130 

 800 



1050 

 800 



930 

 800 



420 

 800 



b. A study of this table of Age Classes tells the forester: 

 That the forest is deficient in ripe timber and quite irregular, 



has plenty of middle age stuff, and lacks in young stands. 



It also tells that certain stands in Age Class IV, like la and 4a 

 can well be placed with ripe timber to be cut during coming twenty 

 years. Also that the stand in lot ten though only forty-one years 

 old should be cut and the land replanted. 



c. In this way the forester has the whole situation placed 

 clearly before him, and he is enabled to shift the stands and decide 

 definitely what is to be cut during the next twenty year.s. 



In this, particular case he might shift all defective, all specially 

 large timber from the second column into the first, so as to increase 

 the cut of the next twenty years and avoid having too large a mass 

 of stuff on hand in twenty and again in forty years from now. If 

 the market takes stuff 6n-8o \ears old he might readily make 



