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of some of the less vigorous and less desirable individuals of the oaks 
and other species when the chestnut was salvaged. This reduction 
in forest growing stock or capital is partly offset by the increased 
growth of the oaks. Furthermore, it must be remembered that the 
openings left in the forest as a result of the death of the chestnut 
eontain a significant number of seedlings and sprouts, mostly of the 
valuable species as yet too small to appear in the plot records. (Fig. 
W.O=WHITE OAK S.0.=° SCARLET OAK R.M=RED MAPLE 
B.O=BLACK OAK H=HICKORY D-DOGWOOD 
Fic. 8.—Crown spread of the stand on the same plot shown in Figure 7, as sketched in 1924. 
Because of the almost complete closure of the dominant stand, the overtopped trees were not mapped. 
The chestnut has completely disappeared from the overstory 
9.) The results of a special study, aimed to determine specifically 
the nature and extent of restocking in the openings formerly occupied 
by chestnut, will be given on a subsequent page. 
STUDIES ON TEMPORARY PLOTS 
Records were made of the stands on 1 quarter-acre and 3 tenth- 
acre plots, and of the reproduction on 24 square-rod plots on the 
Maltby tract. The quarter-acre plot (No. 1) was laid out in a 
60-year-old stand which contained about 35 per cent chestnut before 
it was killed by the blight. The dead chestnut poles are still standing 
