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Deteription of Compartments. 



The cultural method of organiziag selection -worked 

 forests is especially applicable to the irregular and partially 

 ruined condition so frequently to be dealt with in the forests 

 of India, where enumeration surreys would often be waste 

 of time and money. The method is also applicable to forests 

 in which it is merely desired to retain the cover. In the 

 latter case, the fellings would, of course, be limited to the 

 removal of dead or decaying trees. 



But the method enforced in the manner explained 

 above is attended with the drawback that there is no means^ 

 other than by personal inspection, of checking its correct 

 application. The only extraneous control that can b& 

 exercised over its application is with regard to the 

 area exploited ; and all the prescriptions on this subject 

 might be rigidly adhered to while the far more important 

 cultural rules were being misapplied. Heilce, where possible, 

 it is always preferable to determine the quantity of material 

 that may annually or periodically be removed with safety, 

 and to limit the fellings to this naaxinaum quantity while 

 subordinating them to cultural rules, 



Thns the fellings might he limited to the removal of the exploitable or mature- 

 trees ezistlDg in the forest in the time which it takes to replace them. 



The nnmter of first class trees existing in the forest having been ascertained hy 

 ennmeratioD, as vrell as thai number of years required for trees of the lowest girth of 

 the second class to attain the lowest exploitable size, the maximum number of trees 

 which it may be possible (snbjectto sylvicnltural congideratioDs) to cut annually may 

 then be determined by dividing the former figure by the latter. 



