APPENDIX. 



A. Normal Yield Tables. 



These tables will prove useful in giving actual reliable data con- 

 cerning forestry as a business. They will be helpful in preparing 

 problems for class use. 



American yield tables are still deficient ; practically all data 

 come from wild woods ; the growth of the individual tree is usually 

 determined on dominant trees only, the yields per acre on stands far 

 beyond a justifiable rotation; the effects of man's care in thinning 

 are yet to be learned. None of these data are as yet accepted by a 

 representative body of men. 



Under these conditions it seemed best to use the German tables 

 as worked out in connection with the forest experiment stations 

 and compiled by Professor Doctor Adam Schwappach, the foremost 

 authority in this Hne of study. 



The division into five sites was agreed to by the Experiment 

 Stations in 1888, and bases the division on the total volume of the 

 main stand and provides for the stand one hundred years old the 

 following relations : 



In Schwappach's tables this relation is fairly adhered to as is 

 apparent from the following : total volume of the pure fully stocked 

 normal stand one hundred vears old is : 



