48 FOKESTEY IN POLAND. 



though unhesitatingly risking this if necessary for the 

 execution of the general plan, and to secure plots present- 

 ing a regular gradation in age. 



' Two copies of his scheme, with charts and specifications, 

 must be prepared, one for the Minister of Finance and the 

 other for the forester ; and with the former must be pre- 

 sented a report of the forester's reasons for adopting any 

 measure, or for not adopting any other which may seem 

 naturally to suggest itself for adoption. And the forester 

 can only proceed to carry out the measures proposed 

 when they have received the sanction of the Minister of 

 Finance. 



1 In subordination to what general scheme of operations it 

 may be deemed desirable, provision must be made for the 

 supply of local requirements. As every section of the 

 forest, of which there are many, is distinct, and surrounded 

 by villages, an opportunity must be supplied to them of 

 purchasing such wood as they require, that they may 

 not be left without this, or be placed under temptation to 

 steal. 



' Where the fellings are well conducted, and the soil is 

 adapted for the natural germination of the seed, as, for 

 example, is the case in the Kshepitsk forest, in the 

 Government of Petrokoff, the forest district readily takes 

 the appearance and condition of a regulated forest. But 

 unhappily the fellings throughout the Government forests 

 do not all fulfil these conditions, and the reproduction of the 

 forests felled proceeds very slowly, and in some cases does 

 not take place at all, of which a striking illustration is 

 supplied by the Raigrod forest, in the Government of 

 Lonija, where there are twelve cleared fellings, where 

 there are no signs of reproduction, though a long time has 

 elapsed since they were cleared in the case of the first 

 felled, fourteen years- -and they have still growing on 

 them baliveaux, or seed-bearing trees, left in the first fell- 

 ing for the production of seed. 



