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NOTES ON FORESTRY. 



ing inch ; but if the measurements are required 

 only as the basis of a working-plan, each column 

 may embrace two or three inches of difference, 

 thus 



The site of operations having been selected, the 

 party should commence with a strjp of fifty to 

 a hundred feet wide along one of the boundaries, 

 the men with the klappe on either side, the writer 

 in the middle, and the axeman in close attend- 

 ance on the inner klappe man. 



The party now marches straight forward ; the 

 klappe men grasp each tree in rotation, and read 

 off the numbers in an audible voice; the writer 

 makes a stroke in the corresponding column, and 

 draws every fifth stroke diagonally across the other 

 four for convenience of subsequent addition, and 

 has ample leisure to look round him and see that 

 no trees are missed. The axeman marks all the 

 outer trees of the strip as they are measured. 

 On reaching the opposite edge of the forest, the 



