

Tme AmBONDACK Slack Spruos. 



Table III — {Continued), 



DIAMETBa — Inches, 



Spruce. 



Hemlock. Maple. 



Birch. 



Beech. 



Total. 



24.. 



5 



4 

 6 



4 

 6 



2 

 2 



i 



2 



i . 



2 ; 



i .. 



2 . 



i *. 



1 . 



1 



2 



3 

 *2 



3 



1 



i 





11 



S5 



6 



26 



9 



27 



4 



28 



8 



29 



5 



30 



3 



31 



32 



33 



34 



1 

 3 



1 



35 



86 



i 



202 



1 

 2 









58 



81 



101 



132 



574 



TJie average diameters are 



Spruce, 17i inches; hemlock, 

 17 inches; maple, 14f inches; yellow birch, 16|. inches, 

 and beech, lij inches. This average does not include trees 

 of less than nine inches in diameter. Number of trees to the 

 acre (nine inches or more in diameter), 144, or less than one to 

 each square rod.^ 



The statistics in the next following table are based on measure 

 ments and counts made by Foresters Olmsted and Sanford, who 

 were instructed to measure and count the rings of tree growth 

 on 1,000 trees. Of this number the first TOO were examined on 

 Lots 33 and 34, Township 20, Town of Santa Clara, Franklin 

 county. This piece of forest is situated about four miles west of 

 the Upper Saranac lake and lies between Floodwocd and Long 

 X oncLS. 



The 203 specimens next following were examined in St. Law- 

 rence county on Lots 34 and 35, Township 3, Town of 

 Hopkinton. 



The remaining 97, embracing specimens 903-1,000, were 

 measured and counted on Lots 50 and 63, Township 3, Town of 

 Hopkinton, St. Lawrence county. 



Each locality was coYered by a virgin forest, the trees 

 examined being the first that had been cut in that vicinity. The 



* Not including the young trees under nine inches in diameter, of wMcli there was tlie usual 

 number intermixed with the undergrowth. 



