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THE COPPICE WITH STANDARDS METHOD 



branches on trees which have not an adequate crown devel- 

 opment.^ Pruning to remove such branches is advisable, as 

 an otherwise clear stem may be rendered knotty. 



Modifications of the Method. — There are none which merit 

 special consideration. 



Advantages and Disadvantages of the Method. — Coppice 

 with standards occupies a position intermediate between simple 

 coppice and the high forest methods, though nearest in character 

 to the former, and shares in a lesser degree the advantages and 

 disadvantages of coppice as contrasteU with high forest. 



Advantages. — i. The benefit of rapid growth of individual 

 trees in an open stand is secured without danger of exposing 

 the soil. The standards grow in isolation throughout a large 

 part of their Kfe, while the coppice protects the site. Equally 

 rapid growth of individual trees cannot be obtained under 

 high forest methods without exposure of the site or expensive 

 imder-planting. 



This advantage is greatest with species whose timber value 

 per thousand feet board measure is appreciably enhanced as 

 diameter increases. 



2. Does not require so large a growing stock or financial 

 investment as do high forest methods. 



3. The net return on the investment is relatively high, due 

 to the amount of capital invested and in some cases to high 

 prices received for material of large size. 



The following illustration taken from experience in Baden 

 will illustrate the effects of advantages 2 and 3.^ 



High forest 



Compound coppice 

 Simple coppice . . . 



Annual cut per 

 acre 



Cubic feet 

 62.86 

 65.68 

 58.62 



On a growing 

 stock of 



Cubic feet 



3461 



1642 



600 



Volume 

 growth, 

 percent. 



1.82 

 4.00 

 9.76 



