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The company has lumbered about 25,000 acres in 

 a county adjoining that in which a portion of its 

 present holdings are located, and where conditions 

 are very similar. These cut-over lands had no general 

 value for agriculture and were without satisfactory 

 market value for other purposes. Their best use is 

 for the growing of timber. A large amount of 

 small timber was left standing on these lands after 

 lumbering, because it did not pay to handle it. As 

 a result, however, of ordinary methods of logging, 

 the timber thus left was not sufficient in amount nor 

 in a conditions to promise another cut of timber 

 within a reasonable period and was an absolute waste. 

 This prompted the company to give serious considera- 

 tion to the practicability of introducing modifications 

 in the method of lumbering which would insure the 

 leaving, in good condition, of a sufficient basis for 

 another crop of timber. It was at this time that the 

 Kaul Lumber Company availed itself of the offer of 

 the Bureau of Forestry to cooperate with private 

 owners in the conservative management of their 

 timber lands, and a working plan was prepared for 

 the management of the forest in accordance with 

 which the lumbering is now being done. 



At the present rate of production, the company will 

 lumber over its holdings in about twenty years' time. 

 The kernel of the problem was, therefore, to so adjust 

 matters that at the end of this period a second crop 

 might be ready for cutting and lumbering might 

 continue without interruption. What the company 

 particularly wanted, then, were the measurements 

 necessary to show with a fair degree of accuracy the 

 rate of growth of the important tree — the longleaf 

 pine — under the conditions obtaining on its cut-over 

 lands, the rate of increase in material, and also in 



