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forest management, since the snccessful reproduction of the more 

 valuable trees is complicated by the varying requirements of the many 

 kinds in mixture. 



MIXED FOREST IN NEW ENGLAND. 



Another promising opportunity for practical forestry is offered by 

 the tract of the Pike Manufacturing Company, comijrising 3,000 acres 

 in Grafton County, N. II. The collection of data necessary to the 

 working plan was begun toward the close of the past year. The 

 forest is a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees of the general 

 type common to northern New England. The desire of the owners is 

 to hold the tract permanently and so to manage it that it may con- 

 tinue to yield valuable crops of timber. Although it has been cut 

 over, the forest contains enough merchantable timber to make lum- 

 bering very profitable if conducted in a careful and systematic way. 

 The merchantable product of the forest may be disposed of at fair 

 profit, while the danger from fire is slight if suitable precautions are 

 taken during the lumbering. 



Private Forests Put Under Management During the Year. 



The working plan prepared during the past year for the tract of Mr. 

 R. C. Neal, comprising 2,321 acres of second-growth hardwood land 

 near Harrisburg, Pa., has been put into effect under the supervision 

 of the Bureau. Markings for cuttings have been made upon 30 acres. 

 This experiment in practical forestry is an exceedingly promising one, 

 and since the forest is typical of large areas in southeastern Pennsj^l- 

 vania its conservative lumbering will have wide value as an object 

 lesson. 



At the request of the Houston Oil Company two field assistants of 

 the Bureau of Forestry were temporarily detailed, beginning with 

 June 1, to pxit conservative lumbering into effect; upon the holdings of 

 the company in Newton and Jasper counties, Tex. , under the super- 

 vision of this Bureau and in accordance with its recommendations. 



In connection with the preparation of the working plan for the for- 

 est of the United States Military Academy at West Point sample mark- 

 ings for cuttings were made and an arrangement has been reached by 

 which the application of the working plan is under the immediate 

 supervision of this Bureau. 



The application of conservative management to twenty-seven wood- 

 lots in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connect- 

 icut, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, comprising a total area 

 of 4,410 acres, is now under the supervision of this Bureau. The lack 

 of available men renders it impossible for the Bureau of Forestry to 

 supervise the application of all woodlot working plans which it pre- 

 pares. Work is supervised only in those woodlots which present 

 peculiarly difficult problems in their management and the conserva- 

 tive handling of which is of particular value as object lessons for the 

 regions in which they lie. 



The 104,459 acres which constitute the first selection for the Minne- 

 sota National Forest Reserve are now under the supervision of the 

 Bureau, and the marking of trees to be left standing after lumbering 

 is in progress. 



