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should at least enable forester and 

 gamekeeper to share the woods in com- 

 parative amity, each finding fair field 

 therein for the pursuit of his objects. 



The first system is technically known 

 in sylviculture as " stored coppice." For 

 a more detailed exposition of its practice 

 than the scope of this volume would 

 allow us to give here, any in search of 

 further information may with advantage 

 refer to Professor Schlich's admirable 

 treatise on Forestry,^ where they will 

 find a clear and exhaustive explanation of 

 the practical application of its principles. 

 Here it must suffice us to outline very 

 briefly the main features of the system. 



Of all woodland crops, coppice is per- 

 haps the most favourable for the main- 

 tenance of a large and healthy stock of 

 pheasants, the lack of roosting-trees being 

 its sole disadvantage. Formerly the pro- 

 duction of tanning-bark made oak-coppice 

 a profitable crop on sunny southern slopes 



^ Manual of Forestry, by Professor W. Schlich, vol. i. 

 " Forest Policy in the British Empire/' pp. 215-244, 

 London, 1906. 



