Excerpt from Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, 1947 On a conservative estimate of current stumpage value, average annual returns since 1903 have amounted to per acre for the unburned ungrazed, per acre for the unburned-grazed, and for the burned-grazed plots. Apparently, annual burning for a 10-year period early in the life of the stand had a deleterious effect which reduced average annual return by 30 to 35 cents per acre per year. 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.