Senate Doc. No. 84. 



Plate Lll. 



TIMBER NEAR MOUNT ROGERS, VIRGINIA, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN CULLED LONG AGO. 



( See pp. GJ-U7. ) 



Under every system of forest manag-ement the mature timber should he cut and used. Otherwl.se it 

 interferes with the proper development of the younger growth; and when it decays and falls it 

 may feed fires so as to destroy the forest. 



