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A PKIMER OF FORESTRY. 



Care is needed in skidding not to rub or tear the bark 

 from valuable standing trees, or to break the 3^oung 

 growth down, for much harm is quickty done in this 

 way. Promising j^oung trees are often cut because it 

 is easier to use them for corduroy or skids, or for other 

 purposes in the logging than to take others less straight 



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Fig. 31.— Destructive Ubc oi ^ouny fc.i)rueu ior loud building-. Adirondack 

 Mountains, New York. 



or less convenientl}^ at hand, or because they are some- 

 what in the wa}^, or eyen from habit, when it would 

 really be easier to let them alone. A yer}^ little care in 

 preserying 3^oung growth makes an astonishing differ- 

 ence in the future yalue of a forest. 



