Timbers and Their Uses; a Handbook for Woodworkers, Merchants, and all Interested in the Conversion and use of Timber
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...fellings, yields a higher return on the capital invested in it than high forest, and it also furnishes material of greater variety than can be obtained from the latter. The inhabitants of the communes mainly require firewood and small size timber: these the coppice system supplies. Together with a modification of standard coppice it is in practice in nearly all broad-leaved forests of the communes, the high forests owned by these bodies being chiefly in mountainous parts, and consisting of conifers, which will not reproduce from the stool. The State, however, maintains more than half of its productive forests for the supply of mature timber of commercial value, its proportion of coppice being less than a third. The rotations under high forest are much longer than under coppice, and it might be expected that the returns under the former system would be less than under the latter. It appears, however, that the returns from the State forests are greater in quantity and superior in quality. There are two local variations of simple coppice. In the Ardennes region of North-East France, sartage is practised. The chips and twigs left after cutting the coppice-wood are collected and burnt on the ground, the ashes thus obtained being used to manure the cereal crop, which is planted between the stools during the following year. Furetage prevails in the Seine Valley, and provides most of the firewood for Paris; it also obtains in the mountain regions of Southern France, where it is not desirable to denude the cover growing on steep slopes. In this system, the whole of the coppice on a given area is not felled, but only stool-shoots of certain dimensions. The cutting is repeated every year or at intervals of two to five years. High forest, which is established and maint...
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Timbers and Their Uses; a Handbook for Woodworkers, Merchants, and all Interested in the Conversion and use of Timber
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...fellings, yields a higher return on the capital invested in it than high forest, and it also furnishes material of greater variety than can be obtained from the latter. The inhabitants of the communes mainly require firewood and small size timber: these the coppice system supplies. Together with a modification of standard coppice it is in practice in nearly all broad-leaved forests of the communes, the high forests owned by these bodies being chiefly in mountainous parts, and consisting of conifers, which will not reproduce from the stool. The State, however, maintains more than half of its productive forests for the supply of mature timber of commercial value, its proportion of coppice being less than a third. The rotations under high forest are much longer than under coppice, and it might be expected that the returns under the former system would be less than under the latter. It appears, however, that the returns from the State forests are greater in quantity and superior in quality. There are two local variations of simple coppice. In the Ardennes region of North-East France, sartage is practised. The chips and twigs left after cutting the coppice-wood are collected and burnt on the ground, the ashes thus obtained being used to manure the cereal crop, which is planted between the stools during the following year. Furetage prevails in the Seine Valley, and provides most of the firewood for Paris; it also obtains in the mountain regions of Southern France, where it is not desirable to denude the cover growing on steep slopes. In this system, the whole of the coppice on a given area is not felled, but only stool-shoots of certain dimensions. The cutting is repeated every year or at intervals of two to five years. High forest, which is established and maint...
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Timbers and Their Uses; a Handbook for Woodworkers, Merchants, and all Interested in the Conversion and use of Timber
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781024115680 |
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| Publisher: | Hutson Street Press |
| Publication date: | 05/22/2025 |
| Pages: | 370 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d) |
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