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should almost always be pulled out on to the rides by the 

 home staff, as great care is required not to injure the trees 

 left growing. They can then to some extent be sorted and 

 arranged in lots. Quite small poles may be placed in heaps ; 

 but it would not pay to drag bigger trees into neat heaps, as 

 it were. Where an area is clear cut, or where, if not clear 

 cut, the trees left standing are all big trees and not easily 

 damaged, it will be best to leave the felled trees as they fall 

 and not to pull them out to the rides, for, although they must 

 ultimately be pulled out before being loaded up, the cost of 

 so pulling them out is seldom recouped by the owner by any 

 extra price obtained from the buyer. 



When lotting the timber, the trees should be marked at 

 the butt end ; the number of the lot should generally be in 

 paint, and the number of the tree may be stamped with a 

 numbering hammer. The number of the lot should also be 

 painted on the trunks, or some mark put so as to readily 

 distinguish it from any neighbouring lot ; as by the use of 

 different coloured paints, or one or more parallel bands 

 across the trunks, etc. 



It must be distinctly understood that no pole or limb or 

 top is included in any lot unless it be marked with paint ; for 

 the vendor, who fells the timber, retains all cordwood and 

 faggots. 



Occasionally, as described in some cases of standing 

 timber, the lotting can be done by area ; when this is so, the 

 trees on the boundary of any lot should be thrown inwards, 

 towards the lot to which they belong, so as to avoid confusion 

 on the boundary line. 



THE FELLING OP TIMBER. 



It has already been stated that trees should be felled as 

 close to the ground as possible. 



Small trees up to about 6 inches quarter girth are felled 

 with the axe only ; but larger trees are felled with the axe 

 and saw. The axe is first " laid in " all the way round, as 

 low down as possible, and then the rest of the butt is sawn 



