44-4 DISPOSAL OF WOOD. 



and foresight must be shown by the forest owner, or his interests 

 will be seriously prejudiced, as long experience has fully proved. 

 Wherever it is possible, the owner should not guarantee the 

 quality and volume of the material to be delivered ; and if certain 

 assortments are to be supplied, they should be only such as 

 are usually prepared in his forest, otherwise it is better to abstain 

 altogether from a contract. 



3. Satisfaction of the Requirements of the Forest Owner. 



Every forest owner, whether on a large scale or not, requires 

 wood for his own use, and will therefore, after satisfying the 

 demands of right-holders and contractors, consider what are his 

 own requirements. 



A private owner of forests requires firewood, building 

 material and wood for gate-posts, fences, &c. If he owns 

 any works, the wood necessary for them should also be 

 supplied. 



Municipalities and Communes owning forests require firewood 

 for public ottices, schools, Arc. ; they also grant firewood free 

 of charge to school-instructors and minisLers of religion ; 

 timber for repairing churches, public buildings, Sec. ; every 

 household has finally to be supplied with firewood and building 

 material according to its requirements. 



The State, as owner of forests may be expected to supply fire- 

 wood and timber to meet the requirements of the Forest Depart- 

 ment, of its mines and smelting furnaces, of the Public "Works 

 Department and other public bodies. 



(a) The requirements of the Forest Department. — Wood is re- 

 quired for forest departmental purposes, for fencing nurseries, 

 parks, and lands occupied by forest ofiicials, but especially 

 for the contsruction and repairs of departmental buildings, 

 woodcutters' huts, roads, bridges, slides, ikc* 



(b) Wood required for Mines, Smelting Furnaces, &c. — Where 

 works of this nature are very extensive, and require annually 

 the yield of entire forests for their maintenance, it was formerly 



* [All wood used in this iiiiinner should be clearly shown in the icgistcis of 

 forest iiroduce.- Til.] 



