98 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



This mode of Sartage is not so advantageous as the 

 other. It is followed by a less abundant and a less vigor- 

 ous growth of wood, which is attributable in part to too 

 much earth being in some places taken up with the turf, 

 and this earth, burned and calcined, spread over the 

 ground with the ashes, is not adapted to promote vege- 

 tation ; and in part to the roots being sometimes cut or 

 injured, or too much exposed, and to the soil not being 

 equally treated over the whole of its surface. 



Another disadvantage attaching to Sartage a feu convert 

 is, if the turf have not been completely reduced to ashes, a 

 small pellet of half-burned turf falling on a stump, in the 

 scattering of the ashes, may suffice to cause that stump to 

 perish. 



This mode of Sartage is also more hurtful than the 

 other, on steep acclivities, because it makes the earth 

 mobile to a greater depth, and exposes it more to crumble 

 away. But it gives greater facility for preserving trees, 

 within the cleared area, for prolonged growth, with some 

 chance of success, as the fire can, at will, be kept at a 

 distance from these, which cannot be done with the 

 Sartage a feu courant, unless recourse be had to special 

 precautions. 



* Whatever be the mode of Sartage employed, it is desir- 

 able (say MM. Lorentz and Parade, from whose Cours 

 Elementaire, de Culture des Bois cree a Vfaole Forestiere de Nancy, 

 these statements have been derived) to follow up some 

 Cartages with plantings or sowings, as a means of ensuring 

 the perpetuity of good growths ; and more especially is it 

 so with the oak. But planting and sowing seem to be 

 less necessary in woods treated thus than in other coppice 

 woods, because of the facility with which the shoots in 

 woods so treated send out roots of their own, and form 

 thus new supports for themselves, independent of the 

 mother stump This fact, which is unquestionable, is 

 attributable without doubt to the earth being, by the 

 working of the soil, brought up upon the stump to the 



