TRANSITION, ETC. IOI 



as long as it is worth cutting, care being taken 

 during the first few years to cut out any shoots 

 which threaten to domineer over or crowd the 

 young trees. 



In substitution of this method, we may plant the 

 trees more closely, and keep down the coppice 

 shoots until the young trees shall have domineered 

 over them ; and this would be the better course 

 if the coppice is not straight-growing ; or, better 

 still, clear the ground entirely, if the stumps 

 will pay cost of removal ; but when there is no 

 great demand for fuel, it will be cheaper to keep 

 down the shoots. 



The possibility of stocking each block in the 

 order of its geographical position will depend 

 upon the arrangement of the blocks in the coppice 

 rotation ; but if much stress is laid on it, it can 

 be provided for at the trifling sacrifice of clear- 

 ing the required block annually, irrespectively of 

 whether it is mature coppice or not. 



TRANSITION FROM FORESTS OF MIXED COPPICE AND 

 TIMBER. 



This is hardly a known condition in Indian 

 forests. The method of its conversion into timber 

 forest would be by the laying up of one block 

 annually as with coppice, felling all the older trees 

 from three feet girth upwards, fostering the young 



