MARKETING OF THINNINGS 289 



As far as possible, an equal area, under the same rotation, 

 should be cut annually. Thus, if the rotation is 20 years, the 

 whole area may be divided by 20, and that will give the area 

 to be cut annually. 



And, instead of cutting each year's fall in one long 

 sequence, it is preferable to divide the area up into about 

 4 blocks and enter each block every 4th year ; and thus each 

 annual fall will vary from its neighbour by four years. 



HIGH FOREST AREAS. 



(i) The Marketing of Thinnings. 



High Forest. The marketing of thinnings is, when 

 remote from a good centre, usually somewhat difficult. Any 

 trees to be cut out should be marked by the forester 1 either 

 with a handbill or a scribe ; this marking should never be 

 left to the discretion of the ordinary woodmen. The trees 

 should be cut as near the ground as possible, and then 

 trimmed up, and the small " stuff" tied up into faggots. If 

 there be big branches, there will also be some cordwood to 

 make up. 



After the poles have been trimmed up, the best plan is to 

 pull them out into the rides, and, unless they be very large, 

 to sort them into heaps of 20 or 25 each, and then sell them, 

 either by auction or privately, at so much a heap. An 

 auction sale would only be admissible if there were large 

 quantities. 



The larger trees, cut towards the end of a rotation, may, 

 usually, be conveniently sold in little lots of 4 or 5 to each ; 

 the trees of each lot being left in the rides close to each 

 other. 



The trees should be pulled out by the home staff, so as to 

 insure the least possible damage being done to the trees left 

 standing. 



1 This marking of thinnings may advisably be done in the summer 

 when the leaf is on and when the forester has most spare time on his 

 hands. 



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