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The trees were felled not more than 28 inches high, the 

 trunk of the required dimensions alone was removed, the 

 stump and the head were left to rot. 



The trunks are subsequently examined and marked. 

 They are dragged over the snow, and launched on a 

 streamlet or river, and floated to a locality lower down the 

 river, where they are collected by a weir in a receptacle 

 calculated to hold from 1000 to 2000 trunks. When this is 

 full they are dragged out along an inclined plane of timber, 

 by a rope attached by the ends to a post in the land 

 beyond, the lengths being passed over the two ends of the 

 trunk, and attached by their extremities to a splinter bow, 

 and by horse-power they are rolled up to the land. 



By steam-power and water-power they are sawn up into 

 planks and beams by sets of swing saws. A fire is con- 

 stantly burning to consume the debris ; and I have other- 

 wise learned that the sawdust is sent off to peat bogs and 

 such like places to prevent its accumulation. It has been 

 found practicable elsewhere to use sawdust as fuel in steam 

 producing furnaces, but with the surplus of debris this is 

 there unnecessary. 



In this case, and in many others, perhaps on all in which 

 the exploitation is carried on upon a large scale, and under 

 proper supervision by officials in the forest service of the 

 Government, the exploitation, though carried out in accord- 

 ance with the practice of Jardinage, is executed systema- 

 tically and with some regard to the requirements of the 

 future. But in many cases I may almost ?ay, in most 

 cases this is done recklessly and without any considera- 

 tion of what may be required in the immediate future or 

 in that which is more remote, and the information I have 

 received from others is in accordance with my own obser- 

 vations. 



By a forest inspector I was informed that there are 

 whole districts in which it cannot be said that any system- 

 atic management whatever of forests is observed Unregu- 

 lated Jardinage is the only description which can be given 



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