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divided into an integral number of coupes of approximately 

 tiie same productive power. 



5. Order to be followed in the fellings.— The rules regarding 

 the allocation of the fellings should be attended to. The • 

 coupes should have the most regular form possible, and, as 

 a rule, should succeed one another, in consecutive order on 

 the ground ; and the produce of a coupe in course of exploi- 

 tation should not be transported through another coupe 

 recently exploited. A good system of roads or paths must 

 consequently be arranged. 



6. Sfature of the fellings.— The sylviculfcural rules regarding 

 the fellings to be made are simple. The felling of the trees 

 flush with the ground and at the most suitable season of the 

 year, is, as a rule, all that need be prescribed. 



7. The possibility.— This is prescribed by area, and is 

 determined by fixing upon the area to be operate! on. In 

 determining the possibility the present age of the crop as well 

 as its age at the time of felling should, if possible, be stated 

 in order to justify the plan which, owing to tlie irregularity 

 of the crops, must often be of an abnormal character. 



AlthoQgh the exploitation of the coupes in regular succession, in the order in 

 which they stand on the ground, is desirable, this is not always practicable in the first 

 rotation, especially when dealing with areas which have already been subjected to 

 coppice fellinKS without the control of a regular working-plan. As the following 

 example iudicates, such a case presents no real difficulty in the framiag of the scheme 

 of feliings. 



It is assumed that a plan is being drawn up for a working-circle containing 

 1,188 acres already worked as coppice and composed as follows in the year 1907-03 : — 



