282 COMPOUND COPSES UNDER CONVERSION. 



The General Working Scheme will, of course, resemble very 

 closely that given under the first case, while the exploitations to 

 make throughout the whole Working Circle during the Preparatory 

 Period should be arranged thu? : — 



Preparatory Period. 



First Block Preparatory Cuttings or Thinnings' 



Second, Third, &c., 1 ^ j r^ ■ -c ^^■ 



■D] , ' ' ' > Compound Coppice Fellings. 



At the end of this Preparatory Period the forest will have be- 

 come fit for its conversion to be undertaken under the same 

 circumstances and in the same manner as those already described 

 in our first hypothetical case. 



Third Case. 



Instead of a wood of small extent, we will now suppose that 

 we have to do with a large forest divided into a considerable num- 

 ber of Working Circles. In this case it is, as a rule, necessary to 

 group together several of the Coppice Working Circles to form a 

 single one of high forest. Then, as under the preceding hypothesis, 

 we have first of all to decide whether the conversion of the crops 

 which constitute the First Block can be at once taken in hand, or 

 whether it is necessary to have recourse to a Preparatory Period. 



In the former case we must group together in the First Block 

 old coppice crops containing numerous standards and fit at once to 

 reproduce themselves by seed by means simply of the ordinary 

 Regeneration Fellings. At the same time care must be taken to 

 place in the Third, Fourth, and later Blocks crops of sufficiently 

 well-graduated ages to enable us to form of the whole takea to- 

 gether, or better still of each separate Block, if that is possible, a 

 Working Circle of copse to be exploited regularly as Compound 

 Coppice during the First Period. As regards the Second Block, as 

 it must be subjected to purely Preparatory Cuttings (^Thinnin^s and 

 Cleanings) during this same First Period, there is no object in con- 

 cerning ourselves about forming it of crops presenting a series of 

 graduated ages. We need simply allot to it Compartments which 

 will at the end of that Period be fit to regenerate themselves by 

 seed. 



