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one fall of mature crop to the succeeding fall 
on the same area. In coppice worked with a 
rotation of ten years there will be ten such 
equally productive annual falls; in copse felled 
over every twenty years, twenty such; and in 
highwoods worked with a rotation of eighty 
years, eighty such annual falls. And the only 
proper adjustment and distribution of the 
capital in timber or other growing stock of 
smaller dimensions in the woodlands must be 
that the crops on such equally productive annual 
falls shall form an unbroken series from 1 to 
10, 1 to 20, and 1 to 80 years respectively in 
the above cases. Without this, regularity in 
obtaining a sustained yield annually is im- 
possible; and no available market can be 
utilised to the best advantage if the quantity 
of wood offered one year is large, the next 
year small, a third year wanting altogether, and so 
on irregularly. ‘First a hunger, then a burst,’ 
is bad in this as in all other cases. 
The proper adjustment of capital in wood- 
land crops is therefore—no matter whether 
highwood, copse, or coppice be the form of 
management adopted—precisely of the nature 
