FOREST ADMINISTRATION. 137 
cluded. With the fall of the leaf planting and sowing 
operations may be begun, and the sales of timber by 
auction may be begun. 
October-—After the fall of the leaf planting operations 
and the sowing of seed should be prosecuted, Ripe acorns 
and the seed of the alder may be collected and planted ; 
and towards the end of the month felling operations may 
be begun, more especially with a view to the thinning of 
young wood. 
- November. — Felling operations should be continued, 
planting and sowing should be completed, and a beginning 
should be made in the collection of pine and fir cones. 
-December.—The felling of wood, and the collecting of 
pine and fir cones.should be continued, and the bringing 
out and delivery of timber should be begun, if transport 
be practicable, 
Amongst other formulas appended are the following: 
Sale account for the revier, in which, on the debit. side, 
are entered in separate columns the date, sales, and. balance 
from the previous year, and remittances received, number of 
vouchers transmitted and amounts received ; on the credit 
side, the date and amount of payments made, as ‘salaries 
of officials and watchmen, and workmen’s wages, commis- 
sion allowed and remittances made, and balance, stating 
number of vouchers and the amounts. 
Another is the protocol of auction sales, in which are 
entered in separate columns the number of the lot, the 
block in which the wood was felled, the period in which 
the block was to be cleared, the description of wood to be 
sold, the number of trees, the contents in cubic feet per 
piece and per lot, the first bode or offer per tree and per 
lot, the name of the person by whom it was made, the highest 
offer per tree and per lot, the name of the purchaser, and 
remarks—e.., unsold &c. 
A third is the form in which the ledger must .be kept, 
in which, in separate columns, are entered the year. within 
which the operations referred to are embraced, the num- 
