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The official record includes: (i) Composition of the lots — 

 number of the block and compartment, number of trees counted 

 at the first peehng, number of trees remaining on a given date 

 (when crop collected), year of first production, remarks. (2) 

 Order of exploitations — number of the blocks, dates of the 

 exploitations and production during 20 years commencing with 

 1907, age of the bark at the time of exploitation, remarks. 

 (3) Products reahzed — year, weight of dry cork, price of the 

 sale: (a) total, (b) per quintal (220 pounds), miscellaneous 

 data. For each compartment of each block a further record 

 is kept headed: (i) Producing — peeled: (a) year, (b) number 

 of trees; increases: (a) year, (b) number of trees, year of the 

 crop collection or of the first increase; accidental operations: 

 (a) year, (b) reason. (2) Collected — year, number of trees, 

 year of the peehng, collection or increase, amounts, price of 

 the sale, remarks. 



Silvicultural Systems. — The cork oak is managed on the 

 selection system, as in Algeria, on a rotation of 80 to 100 years 

 and a peehng cycle of 3 years. The cork matures in 8 to 12 

 years. (See page 60 for Algerian cutting rules.) 



The zeen oak is cut under a simplified shelterwood system 

 with a seed felhng and a final removal of the seed trees in 15 

 to 20 years, depending on the local market rather than the 

 progress of seeding. While no definite rotation has been se- 

 lected, it is expected that 120 years will be required. The 

 scrub oaks and ohve are coppiced. The aleppo pine is not 

 regularly exploited. 



Grazing. — The only restriction upon ordinary grazing is 

 after a conflagration, when no stock can enter for a period of 

 6 years under a fixed penalty per head.^ Grazing is otherwise 

 practically unregulated, except in the Khroumirie where special 

 provision is made for the grazing of hogs. These rights^ are 

 reserved for local French colonists within the district but are 

 occasionally granted to foreigners (Itahans) who have enjoyed 

 the privilege previously and who have been resident for a 



^ For these fines see page 22. 



* Based on official circular, dated July 30, 1903. 



