REGULATION OF CUT 



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C. Area Methods. 

 i. Fixed Yearly Cut. 



a. In Coppice. 



Let Fig. 9 represent forty acres of Woods. 



Method : Coppice. 



Rotation : Twenty years. 



Also assume that it is advisable, i. e., not too wasteful to start 

 cutting in cutting area No. i ; next year in No. 2, etc., to No. 20. 

 Regulation then simply divides this forty acres into twenty equal 

 parts or twenty cutting areas, of two acres each, and plans to cut 

 one of these everv vear. 



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FIGURE 9. Diagram illustrating the Fixed Yearly Cut in Coppice. The 

 40-acre lot is divided into 20 equal or equivalent pieces, and one piece is cut 

 each year, preventing all over-cutting and assuring proper age class condi- 

 tions and maintenance of the adopted rotation. 



In actual practice these areas may be monumented to save the 

 trouble of re-stirvey, and assure greater accuracy. 



If this plan is followed, the small, coppice woods will be regu- 

 lated in twenty years, and this regulation will have accomplished the 

 usual objects; it will have: 



Secured an equal yearly cut. 



Perfect regularity of Age Classes. 



A normal Growing Stock. 



Maintenance of the twentv-vear Rotation. 



