CHAPTER VI. 



FOREST EXPLOITATION. 



From different allusions which have been made in preced- 

 ing statements to the exploitation of the forests, the 

 produce of which is so necessary to the smelting of ores 

 and the manipulation of metals, it may be gathered that 

 this exploitation is conducted not by what is known in 

 France as Jardinage, as in Northern Russia, details of 

 which have been given in Introduction to the Study of 

 Modern Forest Economy, pp. 137-138, in the French Forest 

 Ordinance of 1669, with Historical Sketch of Previous Treat- 

 ment of Forests in France* pp. 35-39, and in Forest Lands 

 and Forestry of Northern Russia, pp. 89-100 ; nor by 

 what is known in France as Furetage, as in some extensive 

 forests in the Government of Ufa, details of which have 

 been given in a preceding chapter of this volume [ante 

 pp. 31-40], and in Introduction to the Study of Modern 

 Forest Economy ; but by what is known in France as La 

 Methode h Tire et Aire, details of which are given in the 

 afore-cited Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest 

 Economy, pp. 138-153, and the French Forest Ordinance of 

 1669, pp. 40-44. I employ the French terminology 

 because, as I have intimated above [ante p. 38], I do not 

 happen to know any English terms applicable to the 

 operations referred to of which I could make use while 

 desirous of distinguishing things which differ. 



^ French Forest Ordinance of 1669, with Historical Sketch of Previous Treatment of 

 Forests in France. — The early history of forests in France is given, with details of 

 devastations of these going on in the first half of the seventeenth century ; with a 

 translation of the Ordinance of 1669, which is the basis of modern forest economy ; and 

 notices of forest exploitation in Jardinage, in La Methode d Tire et Aire, and in La 

 Methode des Compa/rtiments, 



