160 THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF WORKING PLANS 



the policy to be pursued in the choice of areas. In general, 

 it is advisable to restock first those areas on which success 

 seems most assured, leaving for the future with its greater 

 experience and presumably greater capital those areas where 

 immediate success is less certain. For most administrations 

 profit by making a good initial " showing " and once the way 

 is paved the more difficult operations can be undertaken even 

 though they fail to make so good a " showing." Other things 

 being equal, the money return from a planting is surer, larger, 

 and sooner the better the site and the quicker the success of the 

 operation. 



This should be followed by a full discussion of the methods 

 of reproduction to be employed. First the results of past plant- 

 ings and sowings, accentuating the reasons for failure or success, 

 and then the poHcy for future planting and sowing. The source 

 of plant material — seeds, seedlings, and transplants should be 

 considered; the seed should be shown to be from rehable and 

 appropriate sources (sources suitable to the climatic and site 

 conditions), and the planting stock preferably grown in nurseries 

 on the forest or else secured from outside nurseries whose site 

 corresponds approximately to that of the intended planting 

 site. If there are to be nurseries on the forest, the preamble 

 of the general planting plan gives full provisions for their 

 location, creation, and maintenance, and should contain the 

 area thereof in seed-beds and their capacity, the area thereof in 

 transplant beds and their capacity, and the proposed annual 

 production by species and classes of stock.* 



The areas which it is intended to plant or sow during the 

 coming working period should be indicated on the working 

 map of the forest either by color, or shading, or symbols. 



The annual planting plan may conveniently take the forms 

 on pages 162 and 163, a separate head being used for plant- 

 ings and seedings. 



The general planting plan may conv'eniently take the form 

 shown on page 161. 



* See Tourney: " Seeding and Planting," John Wiley and Sons, N. Y., 1916. 



