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CHAPTER III.— SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS 

 OF A WORKING SCHEME. 



Section I.— Subjects dealt with. 



1. General remarks.— The application of .the method of 

 treatment adopted may involve thinnings, cleanings or even 

 selection or other fellings heing carried on in various parts 

 of the working-circle, hlanks or other areas being re-stocked 

 artificially, or valuable species being introduced into the 

 crop. It will also generally be necessary to regulate the 

 grazing of cattle and the removal of produce by right- 

 holders, or of dead and fallen wood ; and, as a rule, to 

 provide generally for certain improvements, such as the 

 construction of roads or buildings, for fire protection, etc. 



Section II.— Oulttjral operations. 



1. Cleanings and thinnings.— These, if any are to be made, 

 Trill have been indicated with the method of treatment. In 

 all cases they will be prescribed by area. 



S. Extraction of dead and fallen trees. — As a rule, especially 

 where it has been possible to choose a short felling rotation, 

 the dead and fallen timber may be left out until removed with 

 the ordinary exploitations in turn of each coupe. Where 

 the local demand for produce is gOQ.d, it may be advisable 

 to allow the dead and fallen wood to be extracted annually 

 or periodically. In that case, if the material to be removed 

 by the fellings is prescribed, the deader fallen trees extracted 

 may, if desirable, be deducted from the permissible fellings 

 of the year. 



3. Sowings and plantings. — The importance of artificial 

 reproduction in the mode of working will be indicated in the 

 method of treatment on which the necessity or otherwise 

 of such operations depends ; because regeneration may be 

 entirely obtained by artificial re-stocking, or the operations 

 may be confined merely to the re-filling of a few blanks. 

 The introduction of superior species into a crop will generally 

 be carried out by planting. 



Where large areas of blanks occur, it voald be advisable to prepare a separate- 

 plantiDg scbeme for artificially re-stocking tbe same ; wbereas small scattered blanks 

 would usually be re-stocked when thcicoape within which, they may be situated was 

 being worked over. 



