576 JOURNAL OF I'ORESTRY 



:\IISCELLANEOUS 



Staddle notebooks should always be preserved 



Usefulness and since they often contain much information of 



Preservation of the greatest value, particularly vi^hen they cover 



Staddle Notebooks two or three rotations. The only difficulty in 



using them lies in the fact that the classifications 



used, which should always be clearly noted in the notebooks themselves, 



have varied from time to time. This is particularly serious when the 



staddle has not been regarded as limited to seedlings of the same age 



as the coppice, but as including all seedlings of a given size irrespective 



of their age. This practice, which is now becoming common, is open 



to serious objection, since it frequently leads to inability on the part 



of forest officers to determine to which rotation a given tree belongs. 



The result is that when it is necessary to choose between retaining a 



young standard of the same rotation as the coppice and another of the 



previous rotation, the latter is usually chosen in spite of the fact that its 



future growth will be decidedly less, S. T. D. 



H. de la Hamelinaye. De I'utilite et de la tenue des calepins de halivage. 

 Rev. Eaux et Forets. 57:200-201. 1919. 



