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1. Working plans should not be made by inexperienced men, but by- 

 men fully familiar with Indian silviculture — and they should be made 

 in close collaboration with the chief conservator, when there is one. 



2. Rotations and other silvicultural recommendations should be based 

 on definite figures rather than "a compromise of nervous inexperience." 



3. Plans should omit elementary silvicultural discussions which soon 

 are out of date and which merely lead to errors by subordinate officers. 



4. The local officers in charge of a forest should supply the specialist 

 who is to make the w-orking plan with data on the following subjects : 

 (1) Neighboring agricultural customs and necessities; (2) distribution 

 and area; (3) boundaries; (4) rights and concessions; (5) statistics 

 (references only); (6) dangers; (7) marketable products with possi- 

 ble new demands; (8) lines of export with suggested changes; (9) 

 cost, method, and agency of exploitation with suggested changes ; 

 (10) current prices; (11) forest staff; (12) labor supply; (13) a 

 miscellaneous chapter indicating any special local points which affect 

 management. The local officer can supply these data accurately and 

 quickly, whereas the specialist is at a disadvantage because of his lack 

 of knowledge of local conditions and, therefore, should not be required 

 to make original investigations on these subjects. 



5. Much of the routine now done by the working plans officer should 

 be done by subordinates and by lower salaried officials. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Indian Forester, Vol. 45, pp. 364-374. 1910. 



Kubelka develops a "Femelstreifenschlag" 

 Modern (selection strip cutting), dififerent from the 



Management system described by him under the same name 

 in 1912, which was really only a slightly modified 

 form of Wagner's "Blendersaumschlag" (selection border cutting). 

 Under the new system, the whole stand is first subjected to a pre- 

 paratory cutting, then the stands are laid off in strips from 30 to 50 

 meters wide (height of trees) running at right angles to the direction 

 of reproduction. In every fourth strip large and small holes are cut 

 clean, varying from a diameter equal to the height of the trees, down 

 to half that. The other strips are undisturbed, except for the pre- 

 paratory cutting. Later the middle remaining strips are treated in the 

 same way, then the others. As soon as reproduction is established in 

 the openings, they are gradually enlarged. Depending on the period 

 allowed for reproduction, the stand can be made into a practically 



