Asensible code What would be the aim of a Provincial Forest Branch 
for Forest of technical foresters, having authority to carry out 
Management. pyblic regulations, as they exist or may be amended? 
To secure a high production of valuable material and pay to the 
private owner and the state the largest possible returns in the long 
run. As stated by Henry S. Graves, Chief of the United States Forest 
Service, the objects of scientific forestry are:— 
“To secure quick reproduction after the removal of timber. 
“To produce valuable species instead of those having little or no 
market value. 
“To secure a full stock in contrast to those of small yield. 
“To produce trees of good form and quality. 
“To accomplish the most rapid growth compatible with a full stand 
and good quality.” 
—a code of business-like objects, the gradual adoption of which in 
New Brunswick will arrest the impoverishing tendencies of present- 
day woods methods and develop rather than undermine the mainstay 
of prosperity. , 
What makesa Unlike some jobbers, who have no permanent invest- 
Limit Valuable? ment in a forest tract, and have no industries dependent 
upon a source of accessible supplies, the licensee himself will in most 
cases heartily support whatever means will keep his limits in contin- 
uously productive condition. His interests are industrial. The specu- 
lative era in timber has passed. His mills must be fed with fogs or 
go bankrupt. To him the value of the limits lies not altogether in their 
present cubic contents of timber, but also in their ability to repeat their 
crops. In that last phrase lies the crux of the argument for a more 
determined and intelligent public supervision of cutting operations. 
Timber crops are not repeated, except at a heavy discount and very slowly, 
as cutting methods now are allowed to exist The operator, therefore, is 
in a position where only the rising market value of Spruce enables him 
to count his limit at a higher price, for the quantity of timber on cut- 
over tracts at each successive culling grows actually less, and the inter- 
val of delay grows longer; growth in the forest is slower than many 
believe. ; 
Because one lumber firm has been able to take off successively 
from one district profitable quantities of timber and pulpwood during 
a period of, say, sixty years, does not necessarily signify that it is reaping 
only the increment of forest growth. Usually the history of a New 
Brunswick limit is in some such sequence as this:— 
The limit was worked for the choicest pine. 
Then came a second and third culling of pine, a more complete 
and drastic operation, leaving relatively little of that species. 
Next, the operator took out ‘the largest spruce of saw timber size 
At each return he cut what previously would have been passed over. 
With the biggest stuff already marketed he proceeded to shave the 
diameter limit closer. Finally the market for pulpwood made it worth 
while to take out spruce and balsam down to the smallest legal diameter 
Obviously the timber limit was producing: for the market more than its 
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