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the amount of wood cut out not exceeding 17,500 cubic feet, 

 having a value of about ;^4oo. 



The preparatory felling is merely the final thinning of a wood 

 preparatory to the seeding felling, and since throughout the late 

 thinnings in a wood the future mother-trees have always to be 

 considered, the preparatorv felling may be discussed under the 

 head of thinnings. 



iPkoto, IV. C. O. 



BEECH — VILLERS COTTERETS. 



The first felling proper which takes place in a wood is the 

 seeding /e/h'ng. 



The chief species grown in this forest are beech, oak, and 

 hornbeam. The inspector chooses the trees to be felled in the 

 summer, and a brigadier or guard marks them with a cross. A 

 sub-inspector and brigadier follow, marking each selected tree in 

 two places, one at 4 or 5 feet from the ground, and the other as 

 low as possible. A piece of bark is taken out of the tree in each 

 place, and the exposed surface on the tree is then stamped with a 



