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t ees. The chief storm-winds undoubtedly come most frcq 

 f: om the west and south-west, and therefore much shoi Id be 

 s Lcrificed in order to safeguard the woods from their e fects, 

 e ipecially when it is considered that*«c{uce often forms i (most 

 t e entire crop. The obvious disadvantage, however, of 

 r ing II Mill I ' Ml III! I I I III chief storms only is that the 

 f om other directions in iml |iiiii i(]| il 1 liii I and ma;i 

 c luse very serious damage. Thus in ^ 1 iiii|i ilim niHi i 1I1 

 s orm is not now from the south or south-west, but frc 

 r 5rth and north-west, especially ^f it occurs when th( 

 c owns are heavily laden with snow or ice. But as| 

 i npossible to shelter compartments from both north anc 

 V inds the predominating storm-wiaiianust be provided aj 

 a id this we find very efficiently earned out in the St^ 

 c • Saxony. 



The direction of cutting is, of course, again^t<^e >torm-^iiid 

 a nd is thus from east or north-east to,,««mith or south-4e^t, 

 a xording as the wood has been laid ajj^the face of the cut 

 t eing always parallel or nearly s^i^ith the cross rides. 



The large number of smal^*^utting Series " lyHiehzuge) foJLid 

 i I the State forests fonjjfs one of the most importan^a 

 c laracteristic featumirof the woods in Saxony. Th^dire 

 r isult of small " Cutting Series " is trfil^he annual felling takes 

 \ lace over numerous small areas scattered througbr the wood, 

 i istead of in one or two large blocks. This is^dvsintageous 

 f om many points of view, especially for conifer^ and for a tree, 

 s ich as spruce, which is liable to suffer fronNj^h frostMmd 

 c rought, it is particularly beneficial. The a«fttings ar^^lso made 

 \ txy narrow, not normally exceeding 60 t^7o yards in w^th, and 

 c ne seldom finds a cleared area greate^han 4 acres (seeVig- 2). 

 '\ he method of slicing narrow stripsr off the face of a rmimber 

 cf different "stands" {Besfa/idc) A, the direct opposite If the 

 1 rench method of arranging (^tings, in v|ht£h the tenlency 

 i to have, as it were, but one "Cutting SeTT??' for the ^ole 

 ' Working Section" {Betriebsklasse) and concentrating the w^ole 

 < f the annual fellings in one place. The advantages, both silvi 

 { ultural and aesthetic, of the Saxon method of numerous cuttings 

 J re so well known that it is hardly necessary to reiterate them all 

 I f-rv In a summer such as that of 191T, when a large number 



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