LOTTING OF TIMBER 303 



Small local buyers should always be catered for; and 

 if there is a probability that 8 or 10 lots of 10 

 to 15 a-piece would find a ready sale, such small 

 lots should be made up ; but most of the lots in a 

 big sale may conveniently range in value from 100 to 

 200. 



When lotting standing timber, the trees comprising any 

 one lot should be fairly close together; and, except as 

 previously stated, each tree should be marked in paint with 

 the number of the lot to which it belongs, and, in many cases, 

 the consecutive number of each tree in a lot is also added in 

 paint, or it may be stamped on with a numbering hammer, 

 a blaze having first been made on the bark. 

 For example : 



Lot 3 Lot 3 Lot 4 



71 72 I 



Sometimes neighbouring lots may be marked with different 

 coloured paints so as to assist in identification and avoid 

 confusion. In cases where most of the trees consist of two 

 or three species and there are a few trees of various other 

 species here and there, it will often be convenient to assign the 

 few odd species to one lot, as it would not be worth while to 

 make separate lots for each of the miscellaneous species. 

 Occasionally, lotting may be effected by area in the same 

 manner that coppice is lotted by area. Such a procedure 

 would be advisable in cases where young coniferous crops 

 are sold standing for pit wood ; or where mature pure crops 

 are being cleared and there is much uniformity in the quality 

 of the timber. 



When lotting felled timber, the first question to decide is 

 whether the timber or poles are to be left lying as they are 

 felled or are to be drawn out to the rides and more or less 

 assorted. A great deal of money is often wasted in unneces- 

 sary lotting, or rather, in attempting to arrange the lots in 

 a neat order. 



Trees cut under the selection system, or thinnings made 

 in high forest, or standards cut when growing over coppice 



