CONTENTS. 



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Chapter If — The Practice of Forestry 7 



The service of the forest 7 



The uses of the forest 8 



Four requirements for the best service 11 



The yield of a forest 14 



Silvicultural systems 18 



Simple coppice 19 



Stored coppice 21 



Seed or high forest • 22 



Eegular seed forest 23 



Two-storied seed forest 27 



Selection forest 28 



Locahzed selection 30 



The group system 33 



The strip system 35 



Improvement cuttings 36 



Chapter II. — Work in the Woods 38 



Conservative lumbering 40 



Conservative lumbering and ordinary lumbering.. 41 



Felling the trees 42 



Swamping and sawing 45 



Skidding 47 



Transportation 49 



At the mills 51 



-. Waste in lumbering 53 



Planting 54 



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