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and the purchaser is bound to carry out the 

 work of felling, conversion and removal. This 

 plan, though not much in favour in other coun- 

 tries, is highly favoured in France, and its main- 

 tenance is encouraged by the honesty generally 

 prevailing in the timber trade. The second 

 method fixes the rate for a given quantity of 

 timber according to quahty and dimensions. It 

 is usually only adopted in the case of thinnings. 

 The sale of timber cut by the Eorest Depart- 

 ment is seldom carried out, for the reason that 

 the material is not always cut into sizes to suit 

 the market requirements, a state of affairs which 

 conduces to low prices. 



Working plans for the cutting and removal 

 of material from the State and communal forests 

 are prepared at the head bureau in Paris. No 

 departure from these plans is permitted without 

 government sanction. The plans for the coppice 

 system are simple, those for high forest more 

 comphcated. 



" No sketch of forestry in Prance would be 

 complete without touching on the invaluable 

 work accompUshed in fixing the drift sands on 

 the Atlantic coast, and in replacing the denuded 

 slopes of extensive mountain tracts in the Alps, 

 Pyrenees and Cevennes." 



For several hundred miles along the west 

 coast, but especially between the Gironde and 



