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employed in it supervised. Proper rales regarding forest fires 

 must be duly made known and strictly enforced. 



(iii) All forest offences must be promptly reported, and the 

 offenders prosecuted. There are some particular offences 

 against which special remedies may be adopted. Where 

 tappings for turpentine have been illegally effected, they may 

 be smeared with lime-water, which stops the flow of turpen- 

 tine. Where removal of litter is to be feared, stumps may be 

 left somewhat high at the thinnings, or stakes driven into the 

 ground to impede progress. All stumps of stolen trees should, 

 on discovery, be marked with a special hammer to facilitate 

 control. 



(iv) Wherever it is possible to free forests from rights-of- 

 common, this should be done, as abuses almost always 

 accompany them. A comparison between open and closed 

 forest is shown in Fig. 20. 



Fig. 20. New Forest, 1900. Comparison between closed and open forest. 

 Kindly supplied by Commissioners of "Woods and Forests. 



