•29i FELLING AND CONVERSION. 



should be removed, especially through youug coniferous jjrowth, 

 by means of horses and a pair of wheels. On slopes, the groups 

 of young growth should be surrounded by heaps of branches to 

 protect them. Timber may be removed across natural regenera- 

 tion-areas without any serious damage, but this is undesirable 

 in the case of artificial plantations, 



(g) The wood should be removed in assortments, and then 

 stacked at the forest depot. Care should be taken to economise 

 space in the latter, and that the piles of material on hillsides 

 are stable. [In some cases terraces must be carefully made for 

 locating the stacks. — Tr.] All small timber should be piled in 

 hundreds or fifties, and butts and logs in lots of five, ten or more. 

 Heavier pieces which would otherwise remain some time on 

 damp gi-ound should, as soon as possible, be raised on supports 

 above the ground, 



(h) Each party of woodcutters must remove and pile its own 

 wood separately from that of other parties, in order to facilitate 

 payment for the work. 



(i) Removal from the felling-area and transport to the sale- 

 depot are frequently done simultaneously ; in such cases the 

 work may be entrusted to a contractor under strict rules to 

 prevent damage. 



It often happens in the plains, in the case of clear-fellings, that 

 great numbers of logs have to be removed, and this may some- 

 times be done best by means of contractors' horses, mules, or 

 bullocks. In high mountain-regions removal and transport 

 are generally done by contract [as in Indian fuel-forests. — Tr.] 



Section YIII, — Sorting the Converted Material and 

 Fixing the S.\le Lots, 



The first rough sorting of the material from the felling-area 

 is done when the workmen bring the pieces to the forest depots 

 and this classification will hold for all the heavier pieces, logs, 

 butts, (kc, which cannot be moved about in the depot. The 

 men must therefore take the greatest care to arrange these 

 pieces properly, once for all. Pieces, however, which can 

 easily be moved by the men may be somewhat more carefully 



