4.1 



it can be turned to useful account in enriching the forests 

 by having the areas planted up with valuable species of 

 trees where the necessity for such cultivation exists. It may 

 possibly be hereafter combined with forest treatment so as 

 to form a regular method. 



Where the whole crop is saleable, and in climates where 

 natural reproduction is assured, the method of clearing or 

 filean felling adjacent areas may be applied in certain cases 

 for the sake of its extreme simplicity and the order it intro- 

 duces in the fellings. It should not, however, be made use 

 of where the working-circle and, consequently the coupes, are 

 very large ; as it leaves reproduction to chance, and the larger 

 the coupes the smaller this chance. 



Like the preceding, the method of clean felling with 

 artificial reproduction requires the whole crop to be sale- 

 able. The climate should also be one in which artificial 

 Te-stocking can be undertaken with certainty of success, and 

 labour sliould be abundant and cheap. The application of 

 the method should not, as a rule, be attempted under other 

 circumstances or where reproduction can be secured by 

 natural means. 



As in other clearance methods, the strip method of clear - 

 winces can only be applied where the entire crop is saleable. 

 A special objection to the strip method is, however, the cost 

 of laying out the position of the fellings on the ground. 

 Unless this is well done and the strips are permanently 

 marked off in advance there is apt to be confusion ; and in 

 any case the work demands a good deal of time and attention 

 from the staff. The method is unsuited to badly stocked 

 areas and hilly or broken ground. It has the further objec- 

 tion of extending the felling work over a larger area than 

 would be the case under other methods. 



The *' sioreyed " Jorest method is adapted to coniferous 

 tracts where the coppice method cannot be applied or where 

 the uncovering of the soil would foster a dense undergrowth. 

 It is exact and well-defined, and it leads by an easily under- 

 stood system to the correct constitution of the capital. It 

 also has the advantage of furnishing wood of all classes and 

 sizes. It is a question, however, whether the method could 

 be adapted to a mixed crop in which only one or tvro species 

 are saleable. 



The selection method of working, formerly represented 

 as barbarous and unscientific, is the only method which can 



