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INDEX 



Chamonix forest, 229, 259 



working plan, 248-250 

 Chapelle d'Huin, forest of, 87 

 Charcoal, burning, 204 

 Ch^vandier, Doctor, 142 

 Cleaning and freeing young stands, 106 



meaning of, 105 

 Cleanings and thinnings, 71 



when to make, 108 

 Climate, 26 



Climatic and physical features, 25 

 Code, forest, xv 



Colbert, the great conservationist, 221 

 Combre dune, sowing on the, 138 

 Commerce, 29 

 Communal forests, xiv 

 Compartment subdivision, 226 

 Conifers, area occupied by, 40 

 Coniferous stands, planting of, 130 

 Conservation, French attitude toward, 9 



name of, xxi 



projects, private forests in, 9 

 Conservations, France proper divided into 



thirty-two, 273 

 Consumption of lumber, per capita, 16 

 Contractors, rights of, 299 

 Conversion, cost of, 103 



the best known, 101, 103 

 Conversions, 54-57, 70, 100 

 Cooperation, aUied, x 

 Coppice, 54, 57, 70 



loss in large area in, 92 



managed on short rotation, 92 



of sessile oak, 92 



selection treatment in, 94, 233 



simple, 93 



stands, species found in French, 93 



systems, 92, 100 



imder conversion, acres of, 100 



when not to cut, 93 



with field crops, 94 



with short rotation, 218 



with standards, 487 

 Coppice-under-standards, 54, 57, 70, 93 



classified, 97 



four rules for improvement of, 96 



(futaie claire), substitute, 98 



inferior to high forest, 94 



rotation for, 97 



sjrstem, 100 

 Cordwood, how estimated, 208 



Cordwood, prices, 306 



sold by ton, 208 

 Corsica, 262 



special laws for, 261 

 Cork bark, 233 

 Cost of conversion, 103 

 Costs, restocking blanks, 79 

 Cover and protection, 129 

 Crowns, thrifty, well-developed, 86 

 Cuif, in charge of research at Nancy, 101 

 Cut, regulation of, 231 



systematizing the, 225 

 Cutting area, marking the, 254 



and logging rules, 297 



clear, 70, 82 



cycles, length of, 227 



cycles and rotations, 226 



final, 188 



period, 87, 227 



principles and methods of, 224 



regulation of, 215 



requirements imposed by the French, 

 353 



saw timber, 201 



systematic, begimiing of, 218 



systems of, 70, 232 

 Cuttings, improvement, 104, 105, 189 



intermediate, 105 



transformation, 103, 104 



Dabat, M., 312 

 Damage by birds, 278 



by frost, 281 



by game, 279 



by sunscald and drought, 282 



from grazing, 280 



from logging, 277 



fungous, 280 



insect, 278 



prevention of, 276 



snow, 282 



windfall, 280 

 Dams, costly system of, 154 



construction of, 157 



log and dry stone, 155 



masonry and rubble, 9 



principal objects of, 157 



technique of, 157 



walls, drains, purpose of, 164 

 Daubr^e, minister of agriculture, 23, 140 

 Deforestation, cause of, 18 



