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*r '^^^j^r^'*- ^^^^ ^'ock or natural sub-division should be 

 divided into an integral number of coupes of approximately 

 the same productive power. 



Order to be followed in the felUngs. -The rules regarding 

 the allocation of the fellings should be attended to. The 

 coupes should have the most regular form possible, and, as 

 a rule, should succeed one another in consecutive order on 

 the ground ; and the produce of a coupe in course of exploita- 

 tion should not be transported through another coupe recently 

 exploited. A good system of roads or paths must conse- 

 quently be arranged. 



Nature of the fellings.— The sylvicultural rules regarding 

 the fellings to be made are simple. The felling of the trees 

 flush with the ground and at the most suitable season of the 

 year, is, as a rule, all that need be prescribed. 



Possibility. — This is prescribed by area, and is determined 

 by fixing upon the area to be operated on. In determining 

 the possibility the present age of tlie crop as well as its age 

 at the time of felling should if possible be stated in order 

 to justify the plan which, owing to the irregularity of the 

 crops, must often be of an abnormal character. 



Although the exploitation of the coupes in regular succession, in the order in 

 which they stand on the ground, is desirable, this is not always practicable in the first 

 rotation, especially when dealing with areas which have already been subjected to cop- 

 pice fellings without the control of a regular working-plan. As the following example 

 indicates, such a case presents no real difficulty in the framing of the plan of fel- 

 lings. 



It is 'assumed that a plan is being drawn up for a working-circle containing 

 1,188 acres already worked as coppice and composed as follows in the year 1888-89 : — 



