SUSTAINED YIELD li^ CONVERSION OBGANBATIONS. SOo 



The odIj way to accomplish this was to make the most of the 

 existing crops, and even to improve the oomposition and produc- 

 tion of those constituted as compound copse. Accordingly, the 

 Organisation Project prescribes a Preparatory Period of 36 years 

 during which the following work is ordered for each Working 

 Circle: — 



(i) Strict conservation of the crops forming the First Block. 

 This Block will thus fixid itself stocked in 30 years with rji old 

 copse aged from 61 years to 36 years at the leastj well dra^n up 

 in height^ well provided with standards, almost as well adapted 

 for regeneration by seed as if they were real high forest crops, 

 and in a position to yield at once a large quantity of valuable pro- 

 duce. During the whole Period the only operations to make ia 

 this Block are Thinnings every 12 years. Gleanings on a small 

 scale, and the removal of trees that happen to decay. 



(ii) The exploitation as compound copse every year of one- 

 thirty-sixth of the area of the four remaining Blocks. The effect 

 of this rule will be that the crops worked as c opse will, for the 

 first few years indeed, be felled when they are only 25 years old 

 or not much older ; but year by year they wiU natarally be of 

 increasing age, until from the last year of the Period, a future far 

 from remote, none will be cut that is not at least 36 years of age. 

 The resulting advantages wiU be the realisation of prcduee of fer 

 higher value than if the Coppice Rotation were fixed at only 2 5 

 years, and a happy change in the condition of the standing stock. 

 The unqualified reservation of all proraising oaks and the execu- 

 tion of well-directed Improvement Catlings will increase the pro- 

 portion of that species in the copse and ameliorate the oompositioa 

 of the various crops in the highest degree possible. 



Such are the essential provisions of this Organisation Project 

 They place every thing at once on a certfdn basis, and will bear 

 scrutiny from every point of view. Our immediate successors 

 will receive the forest from us admirably prepared for conversion 

 and, to speak absolutely, in a much better condition than it is in 

 at the present day. Xow it is poorly stocked; then, i. e. from the 

 very beginning of the next century, it will be richly endowed with 

 every element that goes to the making of a fine forest. But 

 these excellent results cannot be obtained without keeping down 

 the quantity to be worked out annually. The Am^nagistes, whose 



