THE COPPICE WITH STANDARD SYSTEM. 



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The past method of treatment prescribed coppice with 

 standards, the number of which was to be not less than 60 along 

 the bank of the Chuka river and 70 80 elsewhere. The selection 

 of the standards has been well done and a distribution of age classes 

 has in fact been obtained. At this stage it will be well to consider 

 what the silvicultural result of this treatment will be. With an 

 average of 75 standards to the acre what actually happens is that 

 the heavy thinning to which they are subjected has a most bene- 

 ficial effect on their growth and development ; where they are at 

 moderate distance apart their crowns spread and close up, and a 

 complete high forest crop of fine trees is formed. Where there is 

 a permanent gap in the upper storey a coppice shoot grows up and 

 takes its place with the standards in the canopy. Elsewhere the 

 coppice has not sufficient light to develop permanently and after 

 growing up a certain way becomes suppressed. The ultimate 

 result is indistinguishable from high forest with a second storey of 

 more or less suppressed saplings. Exactly the same result has 

 been obtained in old coppice with standards coupes in G-orakhpur. 

 Further, it is self-evident that this result is bound to occur when 

 the spacing of sal in properly thinned high forest sample plots is 

 considered. These figures are appended for comparison : 



QUALITY II. 



