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GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND WORKING PLANS 



Under the topic, "Application of the working plan," there are given 

 by working groups the data below : 



Results obtained. — While admitting that an exact comparison for the 

 whole forest is not possible, yet notwithstanding the overcut M. Schaeffer 

 feels that the forest has been enriched by the management during the 

 past period. For those areas which can be compared he gives the results 

 in tabular form : 



This comparison, systematized as it is, cannot help but be an accurate 

 guide in determining the yield and consequently it is all the more sur- 

 prising that the calculation is omitted from so many plans. Changes 

 in lines between working groups often make an exact comparison by 

 groups impossible, but the figure for the whole forest is well worth the 

 cost of the calculation. M. Schaeffer makes it a rule to multiply the 

 former growing stock figures by the volumes of the latest volume table 

 if the original table is not still in use. 



The systematic comparison of financial results is equally interesting ; it 

 is by years, and has been given in full so as to illustrate the fluctuations 

 which must be looked for owing to windfalls and unforeseen damage to grow- 

 ing stock or to unusual communal demands : 



