﻿CONTENTS. 
  

  

  Part 
  I. 
  — 
  The 
  Timberlakds: 
  Page. 
  

  

  General 
  description 
  7 
  

  

  Market, 
  taxes, 
  and 
  transportation 
  7 
  

  

  Lumbering 
  8 
  

  

  Fire: 
  Its 
  influence 
  upon 
  the 
  forest 
  crop 
  9 
  

  

  Grazing 
  13 
  

  

  The 
  forest 
  14 
  

  

  The 
  merchantable 
  forest 
  14 
  

  

  Pine 
  lands 
  14 
  

  

  Stand 
  of 
  merchantable 
  pine 
  17 
  

  

  The 
  forest 
  from 
  a 
  silvicultural 
  standpoint 
  18 
  

  

  Pine 
  ridge 
  18 
  

  

  Pine 
  flat 
  22 
  

  

  Hardwood 
  bottom 
  23 
  

  

  Silvicultural 
  notes 
  26 
  

  

  Brief 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  species 
  26 
  

  

  Shortleaf 
  Pine 
  26 
  

  

  Loblolly 
  Pine 
  33 
  

  

  Practical 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  Loblolly 
  Pine 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  

  

  Shortleaf 
  Pine 
  36 
  

  

  Cow 
  Oak 
  37 
  

  

  White 
  Oak 
  38 
  

  

  Sweet 
  Gum 
  38 
  

  

  White 
  Ash 
  38 
  

  

  Shagbark 
  Hickory 
  39 
  

  

  Holly 
  39 
  

  

  Hornbeam 
  39 
  

  

  Part 
  II. 
  — 
  Forest 
  Management: 
  

  

  Introduction 
  40 
  

  

  Timber 
  yields 
  40 
  

  

  Effect 
  of 
  fire 
  protection 
  upon 
  future 
  yields 
  42 
  

  

  Sustained 
  annual 
  yield 
  of 
  the 
  forest 
  42 
  

  

  Sustained 
  annual 
  yield 
  in 
  relation 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  capacity 
  of 
  the 
  mill 
  42 
  

  

  Interest 
  returns 
  on 
  cut-over 
  lan 
  :1s 
  43 
  

  

  Conclusions 
  44 
  

  

  Rules 
  of 
  management 
  45 
  

  

  Cutting 
  limit 
  for 
  pine 
  45 
  

  

  Seed 
  trees 
  45 
  

  

  Cutting 
  limit 
  for 
  the 
  hardwoods 
  of 
  the 
  bottom 
  lands 
  46 
  

  

  Height 
  of 
  stumps 
  , 
  46 
  

  

  Protection 
  against 
  fire 
  46 
  

  

  Care 
  in 
  felling 
  47 
  

  

  Inspection 
  47 
  

  

  Summary 
  of 
  rules 
  for 
  lumbering 
  47 
  

  

  List 
  of 
  trees 
  found. 
  .1 
  48 
  

  

  5 
  

  

  