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In many cases the best means of indicating in detail 

 f(when detail is necessary) the way in which the fellings 

 should be conducted is by means of suggestions recorded in 

 the "remarks column" of the descriptive statement for 

 compartments or blocks. 



In some cases it may be desirable to deal at greater length 

 with the fellings to be made. 



Example. — The rest of the periodic block, which contains old fir forest, will ba 

 Tegenerated daring the first psriod by successive fellings, seed, secondary and final. 

 These fellings will be controlled by volume, care being taken to complete, as far as 

 •possible, all the seed fellings within the first 12 years of the period. The locil 

 oflRcers will execate the regeneration fellings on their own responsibility, in snch a 

 way as to secnre, with ihe greatest approach possible to certainty, the natural re- 

 «tocking of the ground. The seed fellings should be made close, the cover being 

 •raised by pruning the lower branches, care being bestowed on the condition of the 

 surface-soil. Wherever a thick growth of moss, bilberries cr heather covers the 

 •ground, it should be removed in wide strips. Should the ground be overrun by her- 

 baceous growth and there is reason to feajt that the self-sown seedlings will not 

 thrive, it will be necessary to clean-feil and to re-stock artificially, using the pine as 

 a nurse, and when the latter is 30 years old, introducing the sliver fir and the beech 

 under its shelter. There may chance to be spots where the shelter is sufficient for 

 <the direct rearing of the silver fir, and where the soil is of sufficient depth and 

 icrtility to reuder unnecessary the expense of using the pine as a nurse. In this 

 oase a middle course should be followed, and pine and silver fir should be sown 

 in alternate strips. \n their early years the pines will protect the firs and may 

 afterwards be gradually extracted in accordance with cultural requirements. Sap- 

 lings and poles that are not vigorons should usually be retained. AH those which 

 Are too old although yet thriving, that are weedy in appearance, and those in, or 

 which have been under, shade for a long time, ought to disappear. It is only where 

 ■their presence may be necessary as a protection to younger growth that they should 

 be temporarily retained until the ktter has passed the stage at which it requires 

 shelter. When it is considered that a pole crop of silver or spraoe fir is in tho con- 

 ditions that render it desirable to preserve it it should ba thinned, if necessary, and 

 all old trees which may be considered either useless or prejudicial should be extracted 

 from it. 



(v) Tabular statement of fellings to he made. — The whole 

 of the prescriptions should be summed up in a single simple 

 tabular statement containing the following columns : — 



(o) Year or period for which operations are prescribed. 

 (6) Area to be taken in hand each year or period. 

 (fi) Nature of fellings to be made. 



(d) Area or quautity of material to be exploited, 



(e) Eemarks. 



More than this is seldom required, no matter how com- 

 plicated the operations prescribed may be. The area to be 

 taken in hand should, if possible, be shown under the differ- 

 ent headings : wooded, blank, unproductive. In the last 

 column but one should be entered either the area, the 

 iiumber of trees, or the volume of material to be felled. 



