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That these Area Allotment Plans were often misused by narrow- 

 minded, domineering officialdom was no fault of the Plans. 



h. Area Allotment is suited to any forest, to all conditions, 

 provided there is market for the material to be cut, and for very 

 irregular, mismanaged forests it has no equal. The very fact that it 

 demands a careful study and placing before the forester (on paper) 

 of every stand in the forest assures continued attention and care of 

 every tract, a matter so easily overlooked and forgotten in a property 

 of which the inspector or owner may not see large portions in 

 a whole lifetime. 



3. Limited Area Allotment or Judeich's Method. 



''Judeich's Method" (Schlich) ; "Alters Klassen methode" 

 (Judeich). "Bestands wirtschaft" of Judeich and other authors. 



This is a method of Area Allotment ; work in field and in office 

 is the same as in the foregoing, except that the columns for periods 

 2-5 are left out entirely. Stands for the next twenty years (in 

 Saxony ten years) are picked out as before, i. e., ripe and defective 

 stands, and also some stands which must be cut to build new lines, 

 etc., areas are added and if this sums up to more than the normal 

 cutting area for the forest, reductions are made. In these reductions 

 or additions the condition of younger stands is also considered. 



Advantages claimed for this Method lie in the greater freedom 

 of action for the forester. It is usually claimed that this Method 

 only binds the action for the coming ten or twenty years, while 

 regular Area Allotment is claimed to be binding for an entire rota- 

 tion. This is not true. 



In a very irregular forest, consideration of the younger timber 

 is so important that some tabulation must be done to bring out the 

 facts. Whether this table then stays in the plan or goes into the 

 wastebasket may not be important, but, as Schilling correctly says, 

 it ought to stay in the plan. This method of the Limited Area 

 Allotment was the natural result of the rapid progress in forest 

 regulation during the years 1820-1870. The State forests of Saxony 

 for instance had become so regular, work in the forest was so 

 orderly and reliable that there was no further need of bringing into 

 the \Vorking Plan any stands which were not yet ready or in need 

 of cutting and replanting. 



