. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS. 19 apt to he unsound, ])ocause the old stumps decay and infect the sprouts which spring from them. SIMPLE COPPICE, It often happens, as in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, that a tire sweeps over the second-growth hardwood lands and kills all the young trees down to the ground; hut the roots remain alive, and from them spring young sprouts a])out the bases of the burned trunks. After several years a second fire may fol- low and kill back the sprouts again, and other fires may con- tinue at intervals to burn over the land, eac
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry -- United States. SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS. 19 apt to he unsound, ])ocause the old stumps decay and infect the sprouts which spring from them. SIMPLE COPPICE, It often happens, as in Pennsylvania or New Jersey, that a tire sweeps over the second-growth hardwood lands and kills all the young trees down to the ground; hut the roots remain alive, and from them spring young sprouts a])out the bases of the burned trunks. After several years a second fire may fol- low and kill back the sprouts again, and other fires may con- tinue at intervals to burn over the land, each followed b}^ a new crop of sprouts. When a farmer does with the ax what is often done by fire he is usino- the svstem of Snuple Coppice. Let us suppose a farmer has a woodlot covered prin- cipally with chestnut sprouts which he wants to man- age for the steady production of railroad ties. He knows that chestnut sprouts are usually large enough for ties at the age of 35 years. In order to insure a steady yield of trees fit for ties, he divides the whole woodlot into thirty-five parts of eciual productive capacity, and cuts one part clean every year. All the new sprouts that spring up on the part cut in any year. Fig. 10.—Ideal sketch map of a sprout forest managed under the sj'stem of Simple Cop- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Division of Forestry. Washington : G. P. O.
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