TREES AND FORESTRY 



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North Carolina, is quoted as selling white oak at fifty cents per thousand 

 board feet in 1896 and receiving offers of eight dollars per thousand in 1004. 

 The care and reconstruction which will mean large pecuniary profit to 

 forest owners, varies in different parts of the country and also in different 

 woodlands of the same region, depending on the kinds of trees present, the 

 condition of the forest and the proximity to market. In many cases the 

 advice of a trained forester should be obtained (see p. (17). 



SOME FORESTRY METHODS 



IF w E enter a tract of forest in the East we are likely to find elosely- 

 growing second growth-, sometimes chestnut ' hut as often sassafras, 

 ironwood, dogwood, gray birch, red maple and other species of rela- 



FIG. 31. LODGEPOLE PINES. 20 TO 25 YEARS OLD 



A young forest in need of thinning and cleaning. Hitter Hoot National Forest, 

 Idaho 



1 Since 1905 great ravages have been made among chestnut trees by a blight or fungus, 

 Diaportht parasitica. The forests of southern New England, of New York anil Xew Jersey 

 have suffered most, the estimate of loss being 810,000,000. So far the fungus yields Its 

 hold neither to known remedies nor to those newly tried and threatens to destroy all chestnut 

 trees in the East. 



