PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



the end of first year's work the blaze should be 6" (its original 

 length on 1st March) plus rather under W or about 2' in all. 

 In all subsequent years the blaze is lengthened by 18" or so per 

 annum so that at the end of live years the top of the blaze should 

 be 8' in height from the ground. 



In the fifth year of tapping, when the channels will be other- 

 wise too high for the tappers to reach, a light ladder should be 

 given to each tapper, which he will carry about with him from 

 tree to tree. 



After freshening, the cooly will always clear the lip of any 

 shavings with a piece of iron sheet which he must have with 

 him. This piece of iron sheet is to be shaped so that its breadth 

 is Sf i.e., the breadth of a blaze, and that it has in the middle 

 of one side at outstanding piece * depth to gauge the depth 

 of the channels. The first freshening made in the season on an 

 old channel will often require to be a somewhat longer one, i. e., 

 taking more than " owing to the old face of the channel having 

 dried to a greater depth than i." It will be necessary in such 

 cases to cut away the dry wood until the resin bearing wood is 

 reached. 



If in some cases of slanting trees or slanting channels it is 

 found that reain will not fall into the pot, it should be guided into 

 it by sticking one or more chips of wood fixed into cuts made 

 with the adzes on the bark at the edge of the channel on which 

 the resin can fall and be guided into the channel and lip to pot. 



4. Collection oj resin It is necessary that resin should be left 

 as little exposed to air as possible. The keeping of lids on the pots 

 at all times is one means to ensure this. Another means is the cons- 

 tant collection of resin from pots so that the resin be not allowed to 

 remain for any length of time in the pot. The best method is to 

 provide each cooly with a collecting tin and strainer. The procedure 

 is to remove the pot containing resin from the tree, taking the lid 

 off and turning the pot upside down on the strainer in the collecting 



