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intended for the rearing up of coppice-wood should 

 be managed. The sooner that the operation is done 

 after the trees are cut, the better is the hope of 

 a good crop of heaUhy shoots ; therefore, the forester 

 ought not to delay this until all the other work of 

 clearing away the trees and rubbish be finished; 

 the whole of the work ought indeed to be gone on 

 with according to the time that I have above stated, 

 but still, the whole may be proceeding simulta- 

 neously. My way of proceeding with work of tliis 

 kind is : — I have a party of men with horses and 

 carts, who begin upon one side of the ground, and 

 clear away all the valuable wood as they proceed, 

 which is delivered to the sawyer, or otherwise as 

 the case may be : immediately following this first 

 party, I have a second, consisting of women and 

 boys, headed by a man to superintend them, 

 who gather up all the rubbish that is left by the 

 men with the carts, and carry it to convenient 

 openings, and burn it at once, unless some other 

 more valuable use can be made of it : the ground 

 being cleared by this second party, I have a man, 

 or men if the grounds be extensive, following them 

 di'essing the stocks in the way described ; — and in 

 this manner the Avhole work can be made to go on 

 at once without losing any time. 



If the stocks of the old trees which were cut 

 down are not numerous upon the ground, as is 

 more than likely to be the case if the trees were of 



