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3. To secure experience-figures of results as to different grades of material secured 

 in such lumbering. 



Procedure : 1. Select a forty-acre lot located near western boundary, in satisfac- 

 tory hauling distance from Tupper Lake, which contains a large amount of young 

 spruce from three-inch diameter down. 



2. Mark all trees to be cut, and measure their diameters, breast high, before cut- 

 ting, by two-inch diameter classes, noting them by species. 



3. In selecting and marking trees to be felled, the following rules are to guide : 



a. No spruces are to be taken excepting dead or crippled ones. 



b. All young thrifty growth of birch and maple below ten-inch diameter, breast 

 high, is to be left, unless evidently interfering with young spruce, or unless old runts 

 and with low spreading crowns. All crippled and dead trees to be cut. 



c. If any choice in the removal of different kinds becomes necessary, the advan- 

 tage is to be given to the better kinds, following the grades from pine to spruce, 

 balsam, hemlock, birch and maple. 



d. All beech that can be cut into firewood is to be taken. 



e. All hemlock, unless thrifty young growth, from six inches down, is to be taken. 



f. Whenever there is any absence of young volunteer growth, leave enough older 

 timber to avoid making larger openings than four rods square. 



g. Log with utmost care for young growth, felling trees into openings and avoid- 

 ing the smashing of polewood. 



h. In cutting roads, avoid as much as possible passing through young spruce. 



i. Piepare, split, and set up firewood on roadsides — all cordwood to be cut 

 fifty-two inches in length, sawn — all crooked pieces and rough wood sawn or 

 chopped. 



j. All material down to three-inch diameter to be worked up ; all fuel wood over 

 five inches to be split ; cordwood to be set up by grades ; all sound material over 

 ten inches to be cut into logs, or eight inches if sound core, to be skidded separately 

 by sizes ; all logs over fifteen inches to be kept separate. All hemlock logs to be 

 held out. 



^Qilding Account. 



As stated in an earlier part of this report, the main establishment, where the 

 administration of the College Forest is located, consists cf a collection of buildings 

 at Axton. All buildings which were in condition to warrant their retention were 

 put in good repair and painted, and some dilapidated barns and sheds, which should 

 be removed as unsightly and dangerous, are still in existence, since the storage room 



