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Excerpt from How to Make Improvement Thinnings in Massachusetts Woodlands
In the town of Petersham we found an old pasture, containing a thick growth of gray birch, among which a lot of young pines now about twelve years old showed in an ideal way their struggles to get above their grasping neighbors. A half-acre sample plot was measured off, and all the birches cut on one-half of this plot. The other quarter-acre was not touched, so that there could be a comparison made of the difference in the growth of the pine on the immoved and unimproved sections. If our theory proves cor rect, a very few years will suffice to Show the difference. Two men spent two and one-half days in getting out the birch and piling the brush, and the usable product was 4 cords of fire wood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
