CONIEKIS— Continued 



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Part III. The Top-Lopping Law in the Adirondacks 60 



Summary op objections 63 



Summary of conclusions 64 



Discussion 65 



(1) Effect as to fire danger 66 



(a) Fire prevention 66 



Rapidity of decay 66 



Tracts visited 69 



Conclusions 71 



Lopping as insurance 73 



Holding for successive cuttings 73 



Remaining sources of fire danger 73 



(6) Fire control 74 



t'iRE fighting 74 



Construction of fire lines 75 



Intensity of fires 75 



(2) Effect on future forest 76 



(a) Existing and future reproduction .... 76 



(6) Soil 78 



(3) Effect on remaining old forest 79 



(4) Effect on the cost of the operation 80 



Estimates of cost 80 



Closer utilization 81 



Skidding 82 



Peeling in the woods 82 



Three-inch diameter limit for lopping 82 



Shifting the cost to the consumer 85 



Protective measures on Government lands 85 



Elasticity in requirements desirable 85 



Part IV. The Use of Oil as Locomotive Fuel prom a fire-protective 



POINT OF view 87 



Use ON steamships 89 



Oil fuel for donkey engines 90 



Oil as locomotive fuel 90 



How USED 92 



Southern Pacific the leader 92 



The situation in Canada 93 



Statistics 93 



Situation in the Adirondacks 90 



Symposium 09 



Conclusions 113 



