82 MANNER OF PROCEEDING 



CHAPTER III. 



MANNER OF PROCEEDING WITH PLANTING OPERATIONS. EXPENSES 



OF LAYING DOWN LAND UNDER NEW PLANTATIONS. ^THE KEEP- 

 ING OF TREES IN A YOUNG PLANTATION CLEAR FROM GRASS AND 

 WEEDS. THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF THINNING PLANTA- 

 TIONS. THE NATURE AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING PLANTATIONS. 



SECTION I. MANNER OF PROCEEDING WITH 



PLANTING OPERATIONS. 



In all planting of young forest trees, the super- 

 intendent of such operations should be a man who 

 has had considerable practical experience in that 

 hue of work. No man should undertake, or be 

 allowed to undertake, the management of planting 

 operations, who has not had at least ten years' 

 experience in his profession ; unless he has had 

 such experience, and that rather upon an extensive 

 scale, he will not be able to judge for himself in any 

 extraordinary contingency. A man who is allowed 

 to undertake planting operations Avithout proper 

 practical experience, is generally put off his way by 

 every change of the weather, and then knows not 

 how to proceed ; in such extremities he seeks the 

 advice of others, who, very likely, are as ignorant 

 in the matter as he is himself: consequently, the 



