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should neither cut hap-hazard nor should omit 

 to cut ripe timber merely bccavisc he is not in 

 immediate want of money. Also that he should 

 always replant his woods as the fellings clear 

 the ground. 



For example, if there is a woodland area 

 consisting mainly of a wood of 100 acres of 

 oak about 150 years old in a district where 

 there is a good local sale for small quantities, 

 some proportion of the area should be cut 

 regularly, say two acres in every five years, 

 and the felling area increased whenever there 

 was a temporary rise in the price. The planting 

 should be done annually, or every third or fourth 

 year, and the intervals of time used in tending 

 the young trees and preparing transplants for 

 the next planting. Probably under such a plan 

 as this, about twenty acres would be cleared 

 and replanted in twenty years. The work would 

 proceed as a matter of routine, with a minimum 

 of cost and dislocation of labour on the rest of 

 the property. Probably in the second twenty 

 years it would be advisable to double the 

 rate of clearing, so that at the end of forty 

 years sixty acres would have been cleared, 

 and all, except the few acres recently cleared, 

 replanted. 



