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CHAPTER III. 



FIELD-CROPS IN' COMBINATION WITH FORKSTllY. 



When tiold-crops are grown on forest laud they are classed as 

 minor forest produce. Plither the field-crop or the crop of wood 

 may preponderate in value, and the methods adopted vary in 

 accordance with their comparative importance. These different 

 methods will now be considered seriatim, chiefly from a syl- 

 vicultural point of view. 



Section I. — Methods Adopted. 

 1. Lands permanently cleared in Forests. 



Forests contain certain lands which are always free from wood. 

 and are consequently classed as sylviculturally non-productive. 

 These are fields given either rent-free or at a low rent to forest 

 guards or to permanently engaged woodcutters ; areas cultivated 

 for feeding deer or other game ; areas adjoining foresters' houses 

 in the interior of forests, which are cleared to afibrd sufficient 

 light, heat, and air to render them habitable, and to afibrd space 

 for gardens, orchards, or field-crops. Road- and railway-sidings, 

 and blanks left unstocked with trees for sporting and other 

 purposes may be included. 



As lands thus excluded from the wood-producing forest area 

 (except those used for feeding game) are rarely cultivated by the 

 forest owner, they should be leased unless they are allotted to 

 forest officials or woodcutters. 



'2. Field-crops (jroan on Woodland a-itltout eare for forest uroictJi. 



Formerly in certain localities where ihe value of wood was 

 almost nil, it was often customary to fell. and burn the trees, and 

 then cultivate the soil for agricultural crops as long as these 



