54 THE BILTMORE FOREST FAIR 



My worst abuser lives with me : 

 Hisname is Fear, — of Failure. 



ft I Aii Here we cross and recross a log chute used 



NQ Q I by me in 1906 and in 1907 as a means of 



transportation. Watch the colored labels! 



They show the first stage in the development of a second growth. 



If the cut had been harder than it was along the chute, in the 



first growth, the regeneration woiild be better in the second 



stage of the game. 



Tip 



Tip 



ft I f\f% A cove logged in 1898 and 1906; cut for 



PIQ, Qfc tanbark in 1906, and for tannic wood in 

 1908. Ernest Aljen did the work. You see 

 the piles ofjwopd, reffdy for ^fenioval,— dbiJ^tfyou? 



