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The essential object of the preceding table is to give a list of 

 all the compartments, the natnre of the cuttings to be made in each, 

 and the order in which they should be successivelj taken up. 



The compartments are entered in a single column and are 

 designated by characteristic letters or numbers. For greater 

 completeness the name of the canton and the number of the Block 

 are usually given to indicate the situation of the compartment in 

 question. Similarly, there is a special column for the areas of 

 the compartments, and two more for the age and a very brief 

 description of the standing crop, information that helps to explain 

 the treatment prescribed. 



The treatment, which is nothing more than the ensemble of the 

 cuttings to be made, must be noted separately for each compartment. 

 These cuttings are expressed bj their characteristic names; they may 

 be the whole series of Regeneration Fellings here, Secondary and Final 

 Fellings there, or simply the Final Felling in a third place, and so on 

 to the Last Thinning, Periodical Thinnings, Cleanings and the First 

 Thinnings, Selection Fellings, Compound Coppice or Simple Coppice 

 Cuttings, &c., as the case may be. The main point is to charac- 

 terise the cuttings by means of specific names, so that each name 

 may represent a clear and definite idea. 



The order of succession of the cuttings must be fixed in a 

 general manner only, but to the full extent which each class of 

 exploitations admits of. Thus the order of the Secondary and 

 Final Fellings, which depend on the state of the crop (an uncertain 

 element), naturally cannot be fixed. It is impossible to foretell the 

 year in which the new seed-crop will make its appearance, or that 

 in which it will be sufficiently complete and hardy to require a 

 Secondary Felling, as also to forecast the quantity of produce 

 that will have to be removed in each of the Regeneration Fellings 

 from a given area. It would thus be folly to prescribe the order 

 in which the compartments should be regenerated, except in so far 

 as concerns only the succession of the Primary Fellings. 



"With respect to Improvement Cuttings, it is usually expedient 

 to fix their order in the most precise manner for every year from the 

 very beginning of the Period. This is done in the Table of the 

 Annual Yield, in which the area to be operated upon is also given. 



