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TiTegular High Forest Fellings in compartmenta X. Y. and Z, 

 Afea S? acres. 



Regular Higb Forest Fellings in compartments B, C, and D, 

 area 182 aer.es. 



Irregular Coppice Fellings in compartments N, 0, and T, area 

 165 acres. 



Compartnvent X, with a limited area, is necessarily placed in 

 the last Block, iu the very raidille of which it is situated. Compart- 

 raeut y, which is in course of regeneration, requires only the last 

 Secondary Fellings and the Final Felling over the new seedling 

 «rop, which will become exploitable in the last Period of the cur- 

 rent Rotation. Compartment Z, which contains, considered as a whole, 

 a crop of no promise and of little value, must be regenerated during 

 the current Period, but all oak poles should be spared^ these poles 

 will form a valuable portion of che new crop. As a necessary and 

 sufficient set off against these irregular exploitations, compartments 

 A and E ought not to be exploited during the First Period. Com- 

 partment N must be worked as a eopse with Standards, the object 

 in view being to preserve all the useful hardwood portion of the 

 crop ; that, with the new regrowth, will together form an old copse 

 of 72 years at the commencement of the Third Period, when the 

 compartment iu question will reach its turn for regeneration by 

 seed. Compartments and T will be exploited as eopse when 

 about 35 years old, the proportion of the hardwoods iu them being 

 in the meanwhile increased by means of thinnings followed by arti- 

 ficial planting under the cover oveiliead. At the beginning of the 

 Second Period it will have to be seen whether it will be necessary 

 to repeat once more tlie Coppice Felliags iu these two last mention- 

 ed compartments. 



Such are, iu a few words, the principal exploitations that should 

 be made during the First Period. They are restricted to an area 

 /equal to the extent of one Block, and their object is to renew several 

 crops that have no present promise whatsoever. In makinc these 

 e.xploitations every thing must be done that will facilitate matters 

 for the next exploitation, during the proper Period, of the regenerat- 

 ed and reformed crop. These preliminary operations will thus be 

 the first step towards order and permanent improvement. 



