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Interior, no cutting shall be permitted until the advertisement 

 of sale has run its course and the district ranger has been 

 notified by the supervisor that the successful bidder has made 

 the required advance payment and is entitled to the timber. 

 Upon receiving this notice the ranger will permit cutting, and 

 as soon as it begins will report the date thereof to the super- 

 visor. This statement will be upon the regular scale-report 

 blank and will begin the ranger's periodical report upon the 

 cutting. 



The head ranger will visit the cutting as often as possible, 

 and will report fully upon its condition (using blank No. 4r-484:). 



It is the duty of the ranger to see that the cutting is con- 

 fined to the least possible area and not distributed here and 

 there over the entire tract; also, that, so far as reasonable, all 

 branches of the logging operations keep pace with each other. 

 In no instance will the brush piling be allowed to fall behind 

 the manufacture and removal of logs, ties, and other material. 

 The ground must be cleared as fast as the work proceeds. 



The manner of piling brush may be varied according to 

 conditions, but the object is always to insure ready and clean 

 burning, as soon as possible, with the least injury to standing 

 timber and seedlings. The piles should be compact and large 

 enough to kindle easily and burn clean without repiling. 

 When possible, they should not be nearer than 15 feet from 

 standing green trees or dead trees having many branches or a 

 covering of moss which might be ignited. Where the density 

 of the standing timber makes the above rule impracticable, 

 openings should be made by cutting, or, if this is not feasible, 

 the piling should be near the least valuable trees and where 

 thei-e is least danger of the fire spreading. All chunks, knotty 

 sections, or other unutilized portions of trees, as well as the 

 branches, must be piled, and as much of such material as pos- 

 sible should be piled together to insure clean burning. Where 

 the contract does not oblige the purchaser to utilize the trees 

 into the extreme tops, all the remaining portions must be cut 

 up and piled or dragged full size into openings where large 

 piles may be burned safely. 



SCALING. 



When possible all timber should be scaled at skidway or 

 landing, and not as it lies in the woods. In all reserves the 



