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70. In the soil and climate of this Division coppice shoots attain in about twenty years 

 the size for rafters and small house-posts, which are the classes of wood most in demand. 

 After this age is reached the growth becomes for the most part stationary, only a small 

 number of individuals being capable of reaching larger dimensions without deteriorating ; 

 these individuals will constitute the reserve of standards, few of which, however, would 

 advantageously be preserved beyond their sixtieth year. Thus every other consideration 

 apart, the best rotation to adopt would be twenty years, but in most cases the necessity of always 

 keeping a sufficient area open for grazing (all worked coupes being obviously closed for ten 

 years after exploitation for the protection of the young coppice) calls for a rotation of thirty 

 years. 



71. For what has been called in para. 66 above, for want of an established term, 

 coppice-jardinage, a rotation of ten years would be the most convenient, as it would enable 

 us to quickly clear the forest of the present large proportion of stagnating or deteriorating or 

 otherwise undesirable elements. But here again the question of providing a sufficient 

 pasturage area imposes on us the necessity of adopting a longer term, viz., twenty or thirty 

 years, according to the intensity of the grazing pressure. 



72. The areas referred to in para. 67 obviously require no rotation and no restrictions 

 as regards grazing ; but a short rotation of five years has been adopted in order, by compelling 

 the attention of the establishment to each coupe at least once in five years, to secure for them 

 some supervision, of which they at present get no share at all. 



CHAPTER III. THE FELLINGS. 

 ARTICLE 1. The General "Working Scheme; the Rotation and Possibility. 



73. What has been said above in paras. 65 72 indicates sufficiently the general lines 

 on which the forests are to be worked. The areas dealt with in paras. 66, 70 and 71 have 

 been divided into regular felling series or regular series, so termed because regular work 

 is possible in them; while the areas referred to in paras. 67 and 72 have been split up into 

 working divisions, which, because they are intended to furnish chiefly or only the requirements 

 of nistar, have been designated nistar series. The constitution of both classes of series 

 is exhibited in the following statement : 



