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CHAPTER V 

 Practical Sylviculture or Regeneration op Woodlots 

 Natural regeneration, 91 — selection of system, 92 — 

 strip system, 94 — group system, 96 — coppice system, 

 96 — direct seeding, 98 — seeding and planting, 103 — 

 collecting and storing seeds, 107 — the farm nursery, 

 112 — growing c'onif erous seedlings, 112 — growing broad- 

 leaf seedlings, 119 — spring operations, 123 — field plant- 

 ing of nursery stock, 126 — treatment after planting, 129 

 — woodlot plantations in mixture, 130- 



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91-133 



CHAPTER VI 

 Practical Sylviculture — Work in the Woodlot 



Time of thinning, 143 — kind of thinning, 146 — re- 

 sults of thinnings, 149 



134-152 



CHAPTER VII 



Forest Protection 



Eire, 163 — grazing, 160 — mismanagement, 165 — 

 trespass, 166 — windfall, 167 — sunscald, 168 — insects, 

 168 — gypsy moth, 170 — brown-tail moth, 171 — pine- 

 destroying beetle, 174 — spruce-destroying beetle, 175 — 

 elm-leaf beetle, 177 — bronze birch borer, 178 — forest 

 tent caterpillar, 179 — fall web-worm, 180 — the locust 

 borer, 181 



153-182 



CHAPTER VIII 



Forest Mensuration 183-205 



The unit of measurement, 183 — allowance for defects 

 in scaling, 187 — cordwood, 192 — the height of a tree, 

 194 — valuation survey, 196 — stem analyses, 199 — 

 cruising methods, 200 



