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once, twice, thrice or four times before being pub under the prepa- 

 ratory treatment for conversion and finally under direct conversion 

 itself. It is hence necessary to direct the treatment and working of 

 these crops in view of the final object, viz, their regeneration by 

 seed, and consequently to'get together in them, by the beginning of 

 the Period fixed for their conversion, a reserve numerous enough to 

 form that required in a Primary Coupe. 



Hence it seems only natural that we should adopt a special set 

 of rules for the Selection of the Standards in these exploitations. 

 The further a crop is from the Period fixed for its regeneration, the 

 less necessary is it to reserve in it large trees. This being so, the 

 Amenagiste, in organising the conversion of a forest, might consider 

 himself justified in prescribing or authorizing the fall of the stand- 

 ards of the second and higher classes in the Coppice exploitations 

 made in the last Blocks, a procedure that would throw into the yield 

 of the First Period produce at least as considerable as the total 

 outturn of all the Coppice crops composing the newly organised 

 Working Circle before its conversion was taken in hand. Such a step 

 would be greatly to be deplored. Its result would be, that, during 

 the preparation of the coppice crops for conversion, the material to 

 reserve in the coppice exploitations would be less than what 

 would be conformable with the general prescriptions of the 

 Royal Edict promulgated for the working of the Forest Code. 

 Now it is always tantamount to robbing the State and, therefore, 

 the nation at large, to fell unexploitable timber, which has acqui- 

 red neither its full sum of utility nor its highest money value. And 

 more than this, by felling in the First Period not only all exploit- 

 able trees but also others which can become exploitable only during 

 the following Periods, the Amduagiste would at one stroke, at the 

 very beginning of his work, get rid of produce, which he would re- 

 quire afterwards in order to have some stock to fall back upon in 

 order to preserve the necessary equilibrium between the yields of 

 the various Periods, or, at least, to attenuate the difference between 

 the yields of the First and last Periods. 



In our own opinion the best rule to follow in selecting the 

 standards and executing these Compound Coppice Fellings is that 

 prescribed by Section 70 of the Royal Edict of 1827. 



