Apr. 1, 1927 Natural Replacement of Blight- Killed Chestnut 635 
from the side but with their crowns still in the upper story of the 
stand—were cut. Oak was left wherever practicable because it was 
then evident that the chestnut would not survive the blight Plot 
475 was located in the same stand, but received no special treatment 
Fic, 3.—A, permanent sample plot in 1910, thinned to stimulate the growth of the stand. B, 
the same plot in 1924 after the blight-killed chestnut had been salvaged and the remaining 
stand improved by cutting out some of the less desirable individuals of other species. The 
material removed was used for railroad ties and charcoal 
until the chestnut was salvaged in 1917-18 along with that on plot 
474. 
Plot 2 was laid out in 1910 in a 45-year-old stand of second-growth 
hardwoods on the Meshomasick State Forest, mn which very little or 
no cutting had been done prior to that time. (Fig. 3.) Plot 4 was 
