CONTENTS 



DEFINITIONS 



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CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. 



1 . The basis of management 



2. Various objects of management 



3. Choice of species 



4. Choice of silvicultural method .... 



5. Choice of rotation 



CHAPTER II. FIRST PRINCIPLES. 



6. Time element in forestry. The wood-capital . 



7. The normal forest 



8. Relation between wood-capital and increment 



CHAPTER III. MENSURATION AND INCREMENT. 



9. The quarter-girth convention 10 



10. Commercial method of estimating standing timber n 



1 1 . True measure of standing timber . . . . 12 



12. Weise's method of finding the average tree . . 15 



13. Increment . . 15 



14. Increment of felled trees. Stem-analysis . . 16 



15. Increment of standing trees 17 



16. Pressler's formula 18 



17. Schneider's formula 19 



18. Breymann's formula .19 



19. Increment of whole crops . . ... 20 



20. Yield-tables 22 



CHAPTER IV. FIELD WORK. 



21. Preliminary examination of the area 



22. General description of crop 



23. The block .... 



24. The compartment 



25. The sub-compartment 



26. Description of compartments 



27. Collection of statistical data 



28. Formation of working-circles 



29. Formation of felling-series 



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