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OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 



As regards the harvesting of such a crop, each 

 fall will every twenty years be carried out so 

 as to include : 



As ash is now so valuable, and the favourable 

 market for it seems likely to continue and even 

 improve, the retention of ash standards will 

 usually prove attractive along with oak, or in 

 preference to this ; while the planting of stout 

 healthy larch here and there at each time of 

 the fall will add greatly to the subsequent 

 value of the overwood. If the standards were 

 to consist entirely of ash, then the number of 



