. Annual report . Forest, Fish and Game Commission 97 taken off within the last twenty years and another cut is almostready now, thus proving that poplar will reproduce under its ownshade and by proper cutting a tract can be made to yield poplarapparently indefinitely. In view of the fact that poplar is about the fastest growing ofour northern trees and that its value for pulpwood is equal tospruce, the significance of this point can be realized, for with amean annual growth of even three-quarters of a cord per year,worth $ to $ per cord on the stump, the yearly return peracre will be
. Annual report . Forest, Fish and Game Commission 97 taken off within the last twenty years and another cut is almostready now, thus proving that poplar will reproduce under its ownshade and by proper cutting a tract can be made to yield poplarapparently indefinitely. In view of the fact that poplar is about the fastest growing ofour northern trees and that its value for pulpwood is equal tospruce, the significance of this point can be realized, for with amean annual growth of even three-quarters of a cord per year,worth $ to $ per cord on the stump, the yearly return peracre will be from $ to $ In addition, this return can begotten at short intervals instead of waiting fifty to sixty years, asis the case with pine. Thus the ideal treatment would be to thin over a poplar standwhen it reaches the age of twenty or twenty-five years, cutting noth-ing below five inches. This method will allow the trees alreadyon the ground to fill in the open spaces by seed and by suckering,and accordingl
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