. American forestry. Forests and forestry. FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE 160. Too Much of a Seeding Cut THIS SECTION WILL HAVE TO BE PLANTED. THE SEED TREES WERE LEFT TOO UNPROTECTED AGAINST BEING WIND- THROWN, too YOUNG AND TOO FAR APART. VOSGES, FRANCE. too thick. Again, certain sections will hax'c so many young maples in the underbrush that you had best take off the large mixed-species trees overhead, thus acquiring a young section of maples at nearly an age. Here, in this high flat table-land, the white oaks have made a great showing. Cruising through your forest there- abouts you note th
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. FORESTRY ON THE COUNTRY ESTATE 160. Too Much of a Seeding Cut THIS SECTION WILL HAVE TO BE PLANTED. THE SEED TREES WERE LEFT TOO UNPROTECTED AGAINST BEING WIND- THROWN, too YOUNG AND TOO FAR APART. VOSGES, FRANCE. too thick. Again, certain sections will hax'c so many young maples in the underbrush that you had best take off the large mixed-species trees overhead, thus acquiring a young section of maples at nearly an age. Here, in this high flat table-land, the white oaks have made a great showing. Cruising through your forest there- abouts you note that there appears to Y)C either a small one or some big sturdy specimen about every few rods, in all there are enough of them to warrant making a section of white oak. First, we will take out everything that is l)al]jably interfering with the growth of the white oaks already in the stand, after which we will look around to see what chance there is for a seeding cut in the neighborhood of the large seed- bearing white oaks which are scattered here and there in the section. Clearing away the general underbrush is a first step towards a good seeding cut, and the next consists in taking out undesir- ables that are at present keeping the sunlight off the forest floor. This must be done judiciously, not too much or you will have a husky epidemic of weeds, but with enough out to give sun- light from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. you will find a thick fur of young oaks on that fioor inside of two years. If this has been done pretty evenly all over the section you will wake up to the fact some day that here is a forest of young oaks, all of an age, growing up under the larger trees, which young oaks will demand more and more sunlight as they grow older, requiring more and more of the older trees to be taken out, and before you know it that section will be on the standard forest (futaie regu- laire) system. A little further on we come to a big ravine of rich soil that is doing well in a natural for
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