112 THE NEW FORESTRY. 



much difference to the traffic. No heavily laden vehicles should 

 be allowed on wood-roads or drives with wheels on which the 

 tyres are less than six inches wide, and nine inches is neces- 

 sary on heavy, soft lands. Much road mending will also be 

 saved by judicious management in seeing that advantage is 

 taken of frosty and dry weather to remove timber. Road- 

 metal, consisting of rough cinders or broken stones, should be 

 spread principally on the waggon track, and particularly in the 

 wheel ruts. In time the traffic will harden the track, and when 

 it does get cut up the ruts are soon filled in and rolled smooth, 

 becoming green and pleasant again in a short time. 



In addition to main roads, narrow paths or shoots should 

 be left in the plantation communicating with the main roads, 

 where men and horses can enter to drag felled timber out 

 from where it has been felled. Good or large trees should not 

 be cut merely to facilitate their easy removal, but only when 

 too heavy to be removed otherwise ; and care should be taken 

 to cut in judicious lengths so as not to spoil the timber for the 

 consumer's purpose. 



