262 FELLING AND CONVERSION OF TIMBER. 



11. Branch-faggots. 



12. Faggots of thorns, etc., from cleanings. 



13. Heaped-up faggot wood. 



14. Bark for fuel. The bark of silver-fir and spruce, when 



it is not required for tanning, is often stacked and sold 

 for fuel. The bark rolls-up when thoroughly dried, and 

 becomes less bulky. 



The price-lists depend on the classification of the produce 

 from a felling-area, so that there is a local price for every unit 

 of produce. Such prices usually include the cost of conver- 

 sion. 



SECTION VII. CLEAKING THE FELLING-AREA. 



1. Explanation of the Term. 



The felled and converted material of different kinds, which 

 during the process of conversion lies scattered over the felling- 

 area, must be sorted and collected in a temporary forest 

 depot. This is situated within the felling-area, in a valley or 

 on a road leading from one, at the top of a timber-slide or 

 sledge-road, or on the banks of a stream down which it is pro- 

 posed to float the material. In no case, however, should the 

 forest depot be so far removed from the felling- area that the 

 material cannot be transported there by the regular wood- 

 cutters with the help of horses, or other simple means of 

 transport. 



Clearing the felling-area, therefore, means removing the 

 material by dragging, carrying, sliding, or sledging to a con- 

 venient forest depot either within the felling-area or not too 

 remote from it. 



Whenever the material is to be removed to a permanent 

 depot near the place of consumption or a railway-station, by 

 means of more or less permanent means of communication, 

 such as roads, slides, forest-tramways, streams, etc., all the 

 measures required to effect its removal come under the head 

 of wood-transport. Clearing a felling-area and transport 

 cannot however be distinctly separated, and sometimes they 

 are both carried on simultaneously by means of the same gang 

 of woodcutters. 



