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•each, iaoh of radial iacrease, all trees above 12 inches la 

 ■diameter might be felled in blocks or coupes in which 

 Tegeneration fellings will not be made during the following 

 60 years; while in those blocks which will come under 

 regeneration in, say, 30 years, only absolutely unsound trees, 

 or at any rate trees well over 18 inches in diameter, would 

 be felled. Tlie selection feJlings would in other respects be 

 conducted as in ordinary selection worked forests regulated 

 by area according to the cultural method. 



The trarsformation fellings would be regulated by volume 

 or by number of trees in the manner already explained. 



The selection fellings would, on the contrary, be applied 

 by area according to cultural rules, with or without a limit 

 as to the number of trees to be felled. The general working 



-scheme will be drawn up absolutely as already explained. * 



tSECTioN X,^ — The working scheme under the group 



METHOD. 



1. General description.— This is merely a modificationof the 

 method of successive fellings. All the calculations connected 

 with the manrier of prescribing the possibility, etc., are ideu- 

 ftical ia tbe two methods, and the gradual exposure of the 

 -young seedlings is secured by means of two or three successive 

 a-eo'ene ration fellings. These successive fellings are, however, 

 in°the group method all made simultaneously by groups, 

 that is to say, wherever a patch of seedlings is already 

 established it is at onoo exposed in greater or less degree to 

 the climatic influences. Where seedlings do not exist, the 

 'Cover is opened out with a view to their establishment. The 

 Tmethod in fact amounts to this that the volume of material 

 to be felled annually in the block under regeneration having 

 (been determined,- this volume is felled by patches or groups 

 wherever a group of established seedlings exists or is desired. 

 The patch is then enlarged, or new patches are opened out 

 from time to time as the area covered with established seed- 

 lings extends. The method is applied in exactly the same 

 way as the method of successive fellings, and comprises 

 similar cleanings, thinnings, and selection fellings. 



-Section XL — The working scheme under the pastoral 

 method of treatment. 



I. Areas to wMcli applicable.— There are many tree-clad 

 lands in India under the control of the Forest Department 

 •which can be profitably utilised only by the pasturing of 



