98 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
This mode of Sartage is not so advantageous as the 
other. It is followed by a less abundant and a less vigor- 
ous growth of wood, which is attributable in part to too 
much earth being in some places taken up with the turf, 
and this earth, burned and calcined, spread over the 
ground with the ashes, is not adapted to promote vege- 
tation; and in part to the roots being sometimes cut or 
injured, or too much exposed, and to the soil not being 
equally treated over the whole of its surface. 
Another disadvantage attaching to Sartage a feu cowvert 
is, if the turf have not been completely reduced to ashes, a 
small pellet of half-burned turf falling on a stump, in the 
scattering of the ashes, may suffice to cause that stump to 
perish. 
This mode of Sartage is also more hurtful than the 
other, on steep acclivities, because it makes the earth 
mobile to a greater depth, and exposes it more to crumble 
away. But it gives greater facility for preserving trees, 
within the cleared area, for prolonged growth, with some 
chance of success, as the fire can, at will, be kept at a 
distance from these, which cannot be done with the 
Sartage @ feu courant, unless recourse be had to special 
precautions. | , 
Whatever be the mode of Sartage employed, it is desir- 
able (say MM. Lorentz and Parade, from whose Cours 
Elémentaire, de Culture des Bois créé & école Forestiere de Nancy, 
these statements have been derived) to follow up some 
Sartages with plantings or sowings, as a means of ensuring 
the perpetuity of good growths; and more especially is it 
so with the oak. But planting and sowing seem to be 
less necessary in woods treated thus than in other coppice 
woods, because of the facility with which the shoots in 
woods so treated send out roots of their own, and form 
thus new supports for themselves, independent of the 
mother stump This fact, which is unquestionable, is 
attributable without doubt to the earth being, by the 
working of the soil, brought up upon the stump to the 
