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Since it would generally be impracticable to fell in one year 

 over the entire forest, it is usual to prescribe the number of 

 years in which the total area is to be worked, and to divide 

 the forest into the same number of annual or periodic 

 coupes one of which is to be exploited in regular succession 

 each year or period. 



The fellings made in connection with the method are 

 called selection fellings. 



" Storeyed " forest method. — This consists'in forming a crop, 

 according to a pre-arranged pattern, of stems of different 

 ages the crowns of which are arranged in tiers, as is seen 

 in the case of reserves of different ages grown in the method 

 of coppice with standards. As in the latter method the differ- 

 ence in age between the trees of each consecutive tier is 

 equal to the length of the felling rotation. The method 

 differs from that of coppice with standards, because regenera- 

 tion is obtained principally by seed instead of by stool-shoots. 



Regular method or method of successive regeneration fellings. 

 — In this method, instead of the entire crop being removed 

 from the area exploited in a single operation, the removal 

 takes place gradually in several successive regeneration 

 fellings made from time to time as the new growth 

 requires less and less shelter from the parent crop. In 

 addition to this gradual exposure of the new growth, the 

 young crop, as it grows up, is fostered by improvement 

 fellings. 



The successive regeneration fellings, made in connection 

 with this method, are called preparatory or seedling, second- 

 ary, and final. The first and second may be either close or 

 open. 



Group method.— This is merely a modification of the regular 

 method of successive fellings and of the method of clearances 

 by which the parent crop, instead of being removed gra- 

 dually, is felled in small groups wherever patches of seed- 

 lings are found to be established. The regeneration fellings 

 made are called group fellings. 



Pastoral method.— This name may be applied to the treat- 

 ment of areas, more or less tree-clad but of which the prin- 

 cipal product is fodder, and in which it is necessary to 

 preserve the trees for the sake of the shelter they afford to 

 the soil and of the food furnished by their leaves. The treat- 

 ment consists in ensuring the preservation of the trees, either 

 by not exploiting them at all or by felling them only as 



