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based plan, and in all cases would be far better than to leave this 

 most important of all tasks to the woods foreman who happened to 

 be on the job that particular year. 



Volume check here should be waived and the matter left to 

 good silviculture. In pure stands of Spruce danger from windfall 

 alone demands a light cut ; in hardwoods the cut should try to favor 

 reproduction of Spruce at the expense of hardwoods, and certainly 

 leave enough Spruce to assure this, or else assist artificially. In all 

 cases, if the selection method is used, the cut should leave a fair 

 stand sufficiently resistant to wind and snow injury, and especially 

 avoid large areas cut clear, and even smaller ones (ten acres and 

 over) unless these can at once be re-stocked by planting. 



Properties such as are assumed here are not rare today (1914) 

 and it is surprising how large an amount of timber still is left to die 

 and decay in the woods of the New England States, simply for lack 

 of roads and railroad facilities. If part of the money taken from 

 these properties were put back for their improvement it would be 

 an easy matter to change this condition. 



3. Regulation in the Southern Pinery. 



A fine climate which makes even lean lands excellent forest 

 sites with remarkable growth together with pure stands of intoler- 

 ants, calls for the Clear Cut Method of silviculture. To secure best 

 results and avoid serious and avoidable loss, the forest should be 

 surveyed, divided preferably on the United States survey plan ; it 

 should be carefully examined and described and the plan, should 

 bring and keep the exact status of every forty before the forester 

 and the owner. 



This is done better by the plan of Area Allotment which de- 

 serves preference and in time will undoubtedly displace any other 

 in this region. In the beginning, when numerous ripe .stands can 

 not possibly be reached during the first "period" of twenty years, 

 these ripe stands are placed in the plan to suit conditions. 



On properties having a very large amount of overripe stufif, 

 usually accompanied by great masses of defective material, it may 

 prove advantageous to cut the property or at least parts of it over 

 on the Selection plan. In this case volume check may well be left 

 out and the degree of cuttins: left to silviculture. 



