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WOODLOT FORESTRY. 



•being burned. The cost of cleaning up and burning the brush 

 was at the rate of 16 cents per cord for the volume of market- 

 able wood removed. As explained above, this expense is un- 

 necessary in ordinary woodlot operations. 



THE PRODUCT. 



The products into which the material was cut were adapted to 

 the local market. The total amount of material removed was 

 20,475 cubic feet of solid wood. If figured at 80 cubic feet per 

 cord ; this equals 256 cords.* Only 208 cords, however, were cut 

 into fuel, the balance being represented by 80 chestnut telephone 

 poles, 67 cedar fence posts, 109 sawed chestnut posts, 800 bean 

 poles, 400 vineyard stakes and 12,475 board feet of saw material 

 (see Fig. 7). The market value of the 48 cords represented by 

 these products was more than double their value as fuel. The net 

 return from the whole operation was approximately $300. 



THE THINNED FOREST. 



As it now stands, the forest contains 24,712 cubic feet of wood. 

 Each tree that remains has been saved because it was the best 

 fitted individual in its group for future growth and gave the 

 greatest promise of future value. The forest as a whole is 

 thrifty, and has a prosperous look as if all the trees were doing 

 their best to produce wood, in striking contrast to the appear- 

 ance which it had before the removal of the unthrifty specimens 

 which served to make the whok seem unkempt ( Compare Figs. 

 1 and 3, 12 and 13). 



PLANTING. 



In several parts of the forest, gaps or openings, too large to- 

 be soon occupied by natural growth, existed. One of these had 

 been made by the removal of gravel (Fig. 6), another by road 



* A- cord of 128 cubic feet contains on the average 80 feet of wood and 48 

 feet of air space. 



