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its whole duration, it is useful to verify also tlie isuccession of those 

 cuttings, and to rectify it if necessary. Naturally both verifications 

 should be made at one and the same time, at the end of the tenth, 

 fif'teeuth or twentieth year, according to the forest concerned. The 



time for making these verifications must be prescribed by the 



Organisation Project. 



SECTION III. 



Improvement Works. 



The Table of Exploitations prescribes the natnre of the cut- 

 tings to be made in the Working Circle concerned throughout a 

 ivhole Period. But it lays down no injunctions as to the manner 

 of making them. Now there are cases in which the success of 

 forest operations depends on the execution of certain works of 

 improvement. Thus it may be necessary to effect some artifi- 

 cial restocking or to make roads for the export of wood. If the 

 Organisation Project did not consider such works and omitted 

 to point out the metins available for executing them successfully, 

 it would run the risk of being an impracticable project and of 

 defeating the object of the very operations it prescribed. 



The most urgent works of improvement required by each 

 Working Circle ought, therefore, to be a subject of special attention 

 for the forester who has to organise it. The manner of executing 

 these works, the appreciation of the relative urgency and timeliness 

 of each, estimates of their cost, all these points should be discussed 

 together in a single chapter of the Organisation Project. Thus the 

 works that are indispensable for the carrying out of the Organisa- 

 tion Project form an essential part of the studies and proposal* 

 which compose it. Works that are simply useful also require to be 

 mentioned, but more often it is best to leave to the Executive 

 Officer the duty of proposing them when they are actually called 

 for. 



Among the works that are necessary must be included 

 the establishment of a regular system for noting and recording 

 facts and phenomena connected with the growth of the forest pari 

 passu with their occurrence. The Organisation Project must 

 therefore provide and prescribe the means and method ol working 



