COMPOUND COPSES UNDEE CONVERSIOir, 291 



A study of the preceding tables, with the operations prescribed 

 therein, and of the state of the various standing crops will bring 

 out the following leading points : — 



(a) The First Block, covered with very old coppice crops 

 preserved now for 40 years, some of them poor, others rich in form- 

 ed trees, but all completely fertile, will be subjecied to Primary 

 Fellings during the first 20 years of the Period ; there thus re- 

 main 20 years in which to obtain the regeneration of the portions 

 reached last ot all by these Fellings. These Fellings, which ought 

 to be very lightly made, are not expected to yield any considerable 

 quantity of principal produce. Instead of being regulated by volume, 

 a procedure which would lead to the whole Block being work- 

 ed through in a very short time, or would have for necessary re- 

 sult the untimely felling of the standards, they must be located on 

 the basis of area. The advantages of this are(i) that they can 

 thereby be spread over a conveuieut number of years, and ( ii) that 

 the Executive Forest Officers are given the complete latitude neces- 

 sary for operating with all due care and foresight. The Secondary 

 Fellings will remove a fairly large quantity of produce, about 3000 

 cubic feet per acre, and will be made in accordance with the vary- 

 ing requirements of the seedlings. With respect to them also full 

 latitude is left to the Executive Officers within the limits compati- 

 ble with the management of the forest by the Department itself. 



The whole of the Second Block, as well as the compartments 

 of the First Block to be regenerated last, will be subjected to De- 

 cennial Preparatory Cuttings as soon as the coppice crops they con- 

 tain reach the age of 30 years. Arranged so as to form a simple and 

 continuous succession of annual operation?, these cuttings will heip 

 to gradually bring the Second Block into as favorable a condition 

 for regeneration as the First Block actually is. The Thinnings to be 

 made at the end of the Period in compartments H and I, which 

 will stand first for regeneration during the Second Period, have 

 been characterised as Final Thinnings. The result of these Thin- 

 nings will be the appearance of seedlings, which will probably en- 

 able the Executive Establishment to begin the Secondary Felling.-j 

 from the very commencement of the Period, and to at once and for 

 ever afterwards employ the volumetric method of working out tha 

 yield. 



