Bui. 285, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



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Fig. 1.— Heavy Thinning in a 32-Year-Old Stand of Mixed Hardwoods. 



Slow-growing species were cut and sold for fuel, leaving cherry, ash, and red maple. This is 



plot No. 18, p. 27. 



Fig. 2.— Lightly Thinned Yellow Birch Stand in New Hampshire; About 45 



Years Old. 



THINNINGS IN SECOND-GROWTH STANDS. 



