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Names of feUings.-The principal or regeneration fellings, 

 made in connection with each method of treatment, have 

 received special names which will he described under that 

 method of treatment to which they relate. 



Method of treatment.-The body of sylvicultural rules 

 regulating the manner in which a forest crop is regenerated 

 and the produce realised is termed a method of treatment. 



Permanent methods.-A method of treatment is called per- 

 manent when it is applied with a view to replace an existing 

 hy a new crop according to a definite scheme. 



Temporary or provisional methods.— These are applied to 

 change the condition or constitution of an existing crop m 

 order that it may eventually be treated by a permanent 

 method. 



Method of clearances or clearings.— This method consists in 

 felling, in one operation on a portion of the area to be treated, 

 the whole crop (or all but a few trees which are left to grow 

 to a larger size) in such a manner as to pass over the entire 

 area once during the time that is required for trees of the 

 species felled to attain the exploitable size. Reproduction 

 is obtained either naturally from seedlings already on the 

 ground, or from seed falling from adjacent trees, or from 

 trees reserved for the purpose, or by artificial re-stocking. 



When regeneration is obtained by natural means this 

 method admits of several modifications. The forest may, 

 for instance, be divided into parallel strips, leaving every 

 alternate strip unfelled to afford shelter and seed until the 

 whole of the first series has been exploited. Or the clear- 

 ances may be made in regular succession over small adjacent 

 areas and regeneration obtained by natural means. When 

 recourse is had to artificial regeneration large areas are 

 usually clean felled and afterwards re-stocked artificially 

 by sowing or planting. 



The regeneration fellings made in connection with the 

 method of clearances are called dear fellings or clearings, 

 strip fellings or clean fellings with artificial reproduction, 

 according to the particular modification of the method 

 adopted. 



Regeneration fellings by the selection method.— Consist in 

 removing in a methodical manner, in accordance with sylvi- 

 cultural requirements and so as not to exceed the possibility, 

 the exploitable trees in a forest by felling them here and 

 there, as they are found growing, either singly or in groups. 



