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PROTECTION AGAINST MAN. 



Some of the advantages of consolidation are : — 



(a) Greater facilit}" for keeping the boundary hne in order, 

 and at a reduced cost. 



(b) Saving in protection expenses, in work of stafif, and less 

 liability to cases of misappropriation and damage by outsiders, 

 esi^ecially in the case of danger from lire. 



(c) Increase in the productiveness of the forest. Fewer 

 roads are required ; damage is reduced, whether it is caused 

 to the forest by frost, storms, etc., or to adjoining farm-land, 

 by overhanging trees or by game sheltering in the forest. 

 Small private estates enclosed in a forest frequently encourage 

 poaching, or unfair destruction of game. 



Fig. 17.— IIo;i(l of Stoke Tark lU'd Door from Mr. Jtowbnul Ward's " Records of 



