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one fall of mature crop to the succeeding fall 

 on the same area. In coppice worked with a 

 rotation of ten years there will be ten such 

 equally productive annual falls ; in copse felled 

 over every twenty years, twenty such ; and in 

 highwoods worked with a rotation of eighty 

 years, eighty such annual falls. And the only 

 proper adjustment and distribution of the 

 capital in timber or other growing stock of 

 smaller dimensions in the woodlands must be 

 that the crops on such equally productive annual 

 falls shall form an unbroken series from i to 

 10, i to 20, and i to 80 years respectively in 

 the above cases. Without this, regularity in 

 obtaining a sustained yield annually is im- 

 possible ; and no available market can be 

 utilised to the best advantage if the quantity 

 of wood offered one year is large, the next 

 year small, a third year wanting altogether, and so 

 on irregularly. * First a hunger, then a burst,' 

 is bad in this as in all other cases. 



The proper adjustment of capital in wood- 

 land crops is therefore no matter whether 

 highwood, copse, or coppice be the form of 

 management adopted precisely of the nature 



