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a. This Method gained favor among practicing foresters 

 chiefly because it relieved them of some pressure from upper offices, 

 and prevented somewhat the office insisting on the old plan, long 

 after conditions of the woods made new provisions necessary. But 

 all this has nothing to do with the Method itself. The new departure 

 in the Prussian Instructions of 1912 does all this much better by 

 giving the forester himself the task of making his own working 

 plans. 



b. In Limited Area Allotment, Volume Check is generally 

 demanded. The timber of all older stands, (ripe and near ripe and 

 also defective) is estimated, and the Volume for the Period and each 

 year set down in the Plan. This is merely estimate, and is chiefly 

 intended to prevent great fluctuations in amount of stuff to be sold. 

 Estimates even in Saxony are generally ocular when made for this 

 purpose. 



c. In a new country and on large properties, these Area Allot- 

 ments can not be used without modification. It is useless to allot 

 an area of forest to the period 1914-1934 when it is evident that 

 none of the timber on this area can be sold. In these large proper- 

 ties, now practically restricted to the far West, accessible areas, or 

 areas with market, must be temporarily separated into independent 

 Working Sections if an Area Allotment is to apply. 



D. Volume Methods of Regulating the Cut. 



In trying to Regulate the cut by Volume the aim is to cut each 

 year about as much as grows in the forest. In cases of wild woods 

 where growth and decay practically balance, the cut also takes what 

 the forest grows, i. e., the cut replaces decay.* In any case of 

 Regulation by Volume the question arises : how much does the 

 forest produce, or how .much can be cut without cutting into the 

 capital ? 



* It may 'be argued that by doing so the cut by man, and decay or har- 

 vest by nature taken together make an overcut, i. e., removes twice the growth. 

 There is truth here, providing the forester has no choice of stands at all. 

 If he has market for all, and is in position to get at old and defective stands, 

 then the above reasoning is not true. In any case, the importance of this 

 decay is lessened year by year. Nevertheless, this matter is of some weight 

 and indicates need for conservative estimate in setting the Cut in Volume. 



