io WOODLOT FORESTRY. 



i. Mark all chestnut trees. 



2. Mark all cedar trees. 



3. Mark all dead trees. 



4. Mark all suppressed trees; that is, all trees which are shut 

 out from the sunlight by larger ones. 



5. Mark all but two, and in most cases all but one, of the trees 

 in groups which have started from one stump. 



6. Mark the poorer specimens of groups of trees where their 

 crowns have not sufficient space, choosing to be left the stronger, 

 freer-growing trees. 



7. Mark enough trees so that the crown of each one left will 

 be free from its neighbor by a few feet. 



8. Favor to be left pitch pine rather than scrub pine when 

 it is a question which of two equally healthy, but interfering, 

 individuals to save. 



9. Favor to be left oak rather than pine where it is a question 

 as to which of these two species should be removed. (Oh a 

 poorer soil this rule would be reversed.) 



FEEUNG THE TREES. 



After all the trees had been marked, a crew of four men, under 

 a competent foreman, were given the following instructions for 

 the felling: 



1. Cut all marked trees, but only those marked. 



2. Cut all stumps as low as possible. No stump free from 

 mechanical hindrance should be left higher above the ground than 

 the diameter of the cut (see Figs. 2, 5, 7, 11, 13). 



3. Cut all reasonably straight oak and pine into saw logs 

 down to a 6-inch top diameter and an 8-foot length. 



4. Cut all straight chestnut trees into telephone poles. Peel 

 the poles. 



5. Cut all other chestnut into fence posts. 



6. Cut cedar into posts, vineyard stakes and bean poles. 



7. Cut locust into posts. 



8. Cut all other trees and all branches to a two-inch diameter 

 limit into cordwood, and then rank in piles of not less than half a 

 cord. 



