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Rules 1 and 2. — One aot planted 3 % 3 feet )( quirts 4,340 trees. 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



M M Ch M D M L M D M Ch M D M E M () 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M IJ M 



M L M D M C M D M L M D M C M D M I, 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



M D M L M P M Ch M D M L DM P M Ch M D 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M J) M 



M C M D M E M D M C M D M L M D M 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



M P M Ch M D M C M P M Ch M D M L M P 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



IV! L M D M C M D M L M I) M C M 1) M L 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



M D M K M P M Ch M B M L M P M L M D 



BMBMBMBMBMB MB MB MBM 



M M D M L M 1) M C M D M L M D M C 



B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M B M 



MOM Ch M D M L M V M Ch M B M S M O 



Shade enduring. 



Trees. 



B — Box: elder 1,210 



M~ Kussian mnlheriy - 2,420 



D — Douglas bpruce 151 



Ch — Black cherry 151 



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Light demanding, 



L— Black locust 303 



P — Bull pine 132 



O— Bur oak 10 



Total 1,840 



In this mixture the boxelder and Kussian mulberry trees are the nurse trees, and it may be 

 necessary to cut them all out within from ten to twenty years. They will not have attained more 

 than stake or small fuel size in that time, but by shading the remaining trees on the sides they 

 will have prevented their formation of side branches, and thus forced them to straight single 

 stems. 



After the removal of the nurse trees there will remain 1,210 trees to the acre, standing 6 by 6 

 feet apart. Of these the pine, oak, and locust, numbering 454, are more light demanding than the 

 spruce, cherry, and catalpa, which number 756. It will be observed that each of these light- 

 demanding tiees is neighbored by more shade-enduring kinds. 



The next trees to be removed will be the locusts and catalpas, which should be iit for fence 

 posts by the time the plantation becomes sufficiently crowded to make their removal necessary. 

 The cutting of these, when between 15 and 30 years old, will leave 756 trees per acre, of which 

 oaks, pines, and cherry (which demands more light with age), making two fifths of the wliole 

 number, will be light demanding, and the spruce shade enduring. 



The thinning from now on will depend entirely upon the requirements of the standing trees, 

 the purpose of getting the greatest possible amount of timber of the highest quality as the final 

 crops being kept constantly in view. 



