THE FIRST CLEANING. 



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during the felling and by the presence of the faster growing coppice 

 shoots of miscellaneous species interfering with the growth of the 

 sal coppice and sometimes suppressing it. Broken standards 

 should be felled and all damaged shoots, and shoots which have 

 become twisted or whose natural growth has been interfered with 

 should be again coppiced back. It is found that the new shoots 

 grow quickly again and do not suffer much if at all from the loss 

 of the year's growth. The coppice shoots of miscellaneous species 

 which are interfering with the sal should be cut back. Generally 

 these are not in sufficient numbers to make this an expensive 

 operation, and ordinarily giving the sal one year's start ia sufficient 

 to prevent it from becoming suppressed. The operation is there- 

 fore generally prescribed for the first year only after the fellings, 

 but where it is considered necessary to cut back such species for a 

 second year this must be done. Of such species rohni. (Mallouis 

 phillipinensis) and dudhi (Holarrhena antidystnterica) do most 

 damage and these should be cut out in the coupe wherever they 

 occur. Of other species associated with sal, Eugenia operculata, 

 E.jambolana, Lagerstroemia parvifolia, ZizyphusXylopyra, Bridelia 

 retusa, etc., should be cut back if they are interfering or are likely 

 to interfere with sal, but should be retained if they are filling a 

 blank in the crop. On the care with which this cleaning opera- 

 tion is carried out during the first year after felling depends to a 

 large extent on the state of the future coppice crop, and its impor- 

 tance cannot be over emphasised. It must be completed before the 

 next growing season begins, that it is before the commencement of 

 he next hot weather. 



The necessity of the reduction in the number of standards first ,, . 



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reserved, under such circumstances as generally prevail in our 

 Sal Coppice with Standards Working Circles, has already been 

 explained ; the thinning of the coppice will be equally of im- 

 portance , under this system as under simple coppice. 



. In the sixth year the number of standards will be reduced. The 

 necessities of the existing coppice crop will determine what 



