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quent on them, and experience shows that the traffic is almost 

 where the horses and the wheels travel. Breadth of wheel 

 makes much difference to the traffic. No heavily laden 

 vehicles should be allowed on wood-roads or , drives with 

 wheels on which the tyres are less than six inches wide, and 

 nine inches is necessary on heavy, soft lands. Much road 

 mending will also be saved by judicious management in seeing 

 that advantage is taken of frosty and dry weather to remove 

 timber. Road-metal, consisting of rough cinders or broken 

 stones, should be spread principally on the wheel track, 

 and particularly in the wheel ruts. In time the traffic will 

 harden the track, and when it does get cut up the ruts are 

 soon filled in and rolled smooth, becoming green and pleasant 

 again in a short time. 



In addition to main roads, narrow paths or shoots should 

 be left in the plantation communicating with the main roads, 

 where men and horses can enter to drag felled timber out 

 from where it has been felled. Good or large trees should not 

 be cut merely to facilitate their easy removal, but only when 

 too heavy to be removed otherwise ; and care should be taken 

 to cut in judicious lengths so as not to spoil the timber for the 

 consumer's purpose. 



