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to see that any thinning has been made, hence the short interval 

 prescribed. As the areas prescribed for this operation and for 

 creeper-cutting coincide, the marking of the former can be combined 

 with the inspection of the latter and forest guards in charge of 

 creeper-cutting will be able to point out patches of congested sal 

 poles which occur only over limited areas. 



" Coupes will be laid out early in the cold weather preceding Laying 



that in which they will be worked. out the 



coupes. 



:< The yield in this working plan is given in the gross acreage ; 

 in laying out coupes ; therefore, unproductive areas must be taken 

 as they come and included in the acreage laid off. When large 

 unproductive areas occur they may, at the Divisional Forest 

 Officer's discretion, be distributed over a number of coupes to 

 equalise the outturn. 



' The exact position and shape of each coupe is not specified, 

 but the following rules must be observed : 



(1) The first coupe in each periodic block must be laid out 



near the prescribed starting point of the block and 

 subsequent coupes made to follow a regular order calcu- 

 lated to finish the working of the block at a point near 

 the starting point of the next block. 



(2) Considerations of economy in fencing and convenience of 



extraction and cultivation must be kept in view. 



(3) Existing lines, roads and rivers may be used as boundaries 



of coupes, but all new lines cut as coupe lines must be 

 either true (not magnetic) north and south or true east 

 and west. 



" All coupes in which fuel is to be cut will continue to be 

 divided into 70 yard strips by east and west or north 

 and south lines. 



" Coupe statements. In the sal and ItoTtat clearfelling coupes 

 the marking officer will prepare a stock map on the scale of 

 4* = 1 mile a statement of the trees of each species to be felled, 

 and an estimate of the quantity of fuel available. In .fuel coupes 



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