652 UTILIZATION OF BARK AND ITS CONSTITUENTS. 



proposed length of the hale. Between these pairs of stakes 

 the withes and the bark are laid on the ground. Large rolls 

 of bark are placed first and piled on either side between the 

 stakes. As many smaller pieces of bark as a man can take 

 in both arms are then placed in the press between the large 

 rolls of bark, until the bale has become about the right size, 

 when large rolls of bark are placed on the top and then the 

 bale is fastened by means of withes, iron wire, or manilla 

 hemp. The whole exterior of the bale consists of the larger 

 rolls of bark, the smaller pieces being inside. The fastenings 

 should hot be too tight, or the bark may crack and break into 

 pieces, and the bale become loose ; this is important, con- 

 sidering the distance to which bark is sometimes transported. 

 Generally the large external rolls will stand fairly tight 

 fastening. 



The peeled wood is stacked in the usual manner. 



4. Sale of Barli. 



No forest produce is sold so variably as tanning-bark. 

 Taking into consideration whether the sale is left chiefly to 

 the purchaser, or conducted by the forest-owner ; the chief 

 kinds of sale are : of the coppice, by area or unit of produce ; 

 and of the converted material, by weight or volume. As 

 regards the public or private nature of the sale, sale to the 

 highest bidder is the rule ; but although to the apparent 

 prejudice of the forest- owner, sales by private contract are 

 not unusual, often before the market-prices of the previous 

 year's bark are known. 



(a) Sale by Area. The mature coppice is subdivided into 

 larger or smaller lots, and each lot, both wood and bark [or 

 these separately. Tr.], is sold to the highest bidder. The 

 purchaser of a lot converts both wood and bark at his own 

 risk, subject to certain silvicultural conditions imposed on him 

 at the sale, and endeavours to dispose of the produce to the 

 best advantage. 



As by this method it is impossible to form any correct 

 estimate of the value of the crop, it should be absolutely 

 abandoned. At Hirschhorn, a sale-condition is enforced on 



