20'8 iXECESsAiiT 6E'sutT'5 of a*HE Area iimnolS.- 



Cultural improvementa, by wlwcli the crops are brought 

 into a favourable condition for growth, are evi'dently of the 

 liighest importance ; and such of this class of improvements 

 as can result directly from the Organisation it-self are assured to a 

 RufHctent extent by the ju'dicioiis enyploymertt of the Area Method. 

 It is in this indispensable exercise of the judgment and of provident 

 moderation that lie the difficulties of that Method. Jfist as thesrreat- 

 est of all improvements that can be effected in a forest results 

 from the growth and consequent increase of the component crops, 

 the gl-eatest danger to which an Organisation .Project is exposed is 

 the exhaustion ofthefofest for which it is drawn up. For when 

 once it is found necessary to reduce the figure of the annual ex- 

 ploitations, i't is nearly always irtipossible to effect the reductiori to 

 the fequisite extent. Thus the crops afe felled too young, and the 

 impoverishment of the foriBst continues indefinitely. Indeed, when 

 once matters have reached this stage, it is only a short step to mak-e, 

 by progressively lowering the age of the crops brought under the 

 a,xe and hastening their deterioration, to accomplish the ruin of the 

 forest. But the Method of OrganisatioTi by Area affords a sure 

 means of obviating this danger and even of creating anew, in the 

 shortest space of time possible, those very age-elasses which are 

 now wanting ; for by means of it the exploitations can be curtailed 

 to any extent required, and in order successfully to restoi'e the 

 forest, it is generally sufficient to remove, in the Fellings of the 

 current Period, only such trees as are really exploitable. 



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