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that every stem whose removal is necessary for the improvement 

 of the forest is got rid of, since, in the system just described above, 

 the very crooked trees and those of inferior species may be left 

 standing by the purchasers as not being sufficiently valuable to 

 give them the profits they require. In all other respects, however, 

 the procedure to follow in the present system does not differ from 

 what has been described under the preceding one. 



The felling of the trees by the owner also secures another im- 

 portant cultural advantage. It enables him, in young forest or 

 where there is a mixture of ages, to cut back all badly grown 

 saplings and small poles the re-growth from which would very ap- 

 preciably improve the constitution and future of the stock. Such 

 saplings and small poles having little or no value, the purchaser of 

 standing produce might not have sufficient inducement to cut them 

 back, even if the price he had to pay for the coupe was consider- 

 ably diminished on that account. Hence in all cleanings and early 

 thinnings, in nearly all improvement fellings, and often in after- 

 fellings and jardinage coupes, this system must necessarily be 

 employed, and in the two last classes of fellings, even if the system 

 is not adopted for the entire cut, it must be followed in the minor 

 operations which, forming an essential part of the felling, have for 

 their object the improved growth of the younger generation. 



As in this method of sale the coupe gets littered with small 

 and very inferior produce, the principle on which it is based can be 

 adopted only where there is a demand for almost every portion of 

 the cut. The system cannot be applied to the sale of trees that 

 are scattered over a large area, as the cost of felling them would 

 eat too much into profits. It is for this reason that in the Dehra 

 Dun sAl forests only the trees which are above 6 inches in diameter 

 are sold standing, the inferior stems, the removal of which is doubt- 

 ful, being girdled to make sure of their disappearance. 



Section VII. — The Foeest Depot System. 



In this system the owner not only fells ,all the trees, but also 

 subjects them to a certain amount of conversion and collects them 

 into smaller or larger lots on the nearest roadside or in neighbour- 

 ing blanks, from which their export can then be effected with ease 

 and without injury to the forest. This system is adopted when pur- 

 chasers cannot be trusted to work inside the forest without hurt- 

 ing or plundering it, or when the management has plenty of time 

 on its hands, labour is easily obtained and organized, and the owner 

 is anxious to secure for himself a part of the profits that would 

 otherwise fall to the purchaser. 



