34. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BULLETIN NO. 484. 
Successive cuttings.—If the plan is adopted of making a gradual 
conversion of the stand from hardwoods to pine, the first cutting may 
be made on the same general plan as at Dover, but should remove 
not over 40 per cent of the total number of trees present, because 
this stand is much less dense. 
The result upon this stand appears in the following table: 
Stand and cutting table, Exeter, N. H. Mixed oak stand, three-tenths white oak. 
athe Number per acre left under 
Original stand. two plans proposed. 
2. Gradual conver- 
Trees which control, if in : sion—successive 
sufficient numbers. 1. Radical cuttings. 
Trees which Number |_ ©°2Ver- 
controlon | Otherspecies present. ae sion—one 
this lot. P *| cutting Second 
(now). First (in 2 ae 
(now). 10 years). 
Class T: 
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iBlacktoaks= shee oe tee ee gestae Cks Oak | ae ae eae ce ee | 1H og eg 6235 Sone eee 
WWihiteloaks Sete se coe le Wilt oroa kes | SoSep cease ee eas S40 ae en ee oe 12 oes 
Gray. Ditches: is 32 hee ene i Grtanyspin enya tame DALE Bk Sy ea ea 
(arge-toothaspen=. 22. 26] 4 sa. 53 Large-tooth aspen --| Ale ha ee ae Se eee 
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| Apples: pee ee nee Peer C9 pc eek cee [sche SIR aa 
Class IT: ‘ , 
MWndLomine: qe ok. eC Mae White pine.......... 11 11 11 11 
(PItChsPine ss Poss oe AE SE Seats Oe (Pitch pinesees =a. (1) (4) (1) SORE Ea es 
Class IIT: 
Redimaplo: = cewe ss ease eC eet ae Red maple.......--- DALY aire eis & 13 13 
Yellow birch.......- GIN Say lm art Ce () (4) 
Black birch........- | Api ros ees 1 
INI CKOnyee = oe Pe | ea ae ee 2 2 
Black cherry..-.....- Gl) Fins aes he ee (4) (4) 
ss 22------------ () RSS seats || NE) @) 
Class TV 
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1 J.ess than one tree per acre. 
Planting should at once follow the first cutting. Red or white 
pine, 1,000 to the acre, may also be used here, but a larger part of 
the area is suitable for white ash. It is possible that on sites of this 
character a mixture of 5 per cent of tulip tree or white ash with the 
pine would be advantageous. White ash may also be planted pure 
on deep moist soils in areas not exceeding one-half acre in extent. 
The time of making the second cutting and the need of a second 
planting will be determined by the same considerations as at Dover. 
The product of the first cutting will be cordwocd, 7 or 8 cords per 
acre, and, unless tops and limbs are burned, 3 or 4 cords of poor cord- 
wood worth less than it cost to cut. . 
The costs of cutting and of planting should not differ much from 
those at Dover, and for the same’reasons which apply there the first 
of the two plans proposed is preferable from considerations of forest 
management, of moth control, and of minimum expense. 
