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remanded for another year's study ; but they, along with the first 

 year's students, engaged in the practical forest work of the School 

 Circle or in the working plans or forest survey branch. Cheerful, 

 intelligent, practical work was thus done by those eighteen students. 



In the Oudli Circle the destruction from forest fires has been 

 severe. In one of the two fires caused by lightning in the Central 

 Circle, no less than 4196 acres were burnt. In the Oudh Circle, 

 800 square miles out of 1090, and in the School Circle 568 out of 

 727, are open to grazing, forming the pasturage and breeding- 

 grounds of three-quarters of a million of cattle, and involving many 

 delicate questions as to villagers' rights, and the like. 



The attempts to cultivate species of the Eucalyptus in the hill 

 divisions have not succeeded, though it has done better at Dudua in 

 the Oudh Circle. 



There is a striking disproportion in the average out-turn of each 

 tree felled in the several circles. The average cubic contents of the 

 trees felled in the Central and Oudh Circles are somewhat below 

 10 cubic feet and 2 cubic feet respectively; in the School Circle 

 they exceed 80 cubic feet. 



From the Ganges division of the Central Circle 980 cubic feet 

 of boxwood were sent to England, which was highly appreciated, 

 and sold at the rate of £25 per ton. 



The Deota sledge road, in the School Circle, is the first attempt 

 to introduce on the Himalayas a method of transporting timber and 

 fuel which has been in use for centuries in the mountain forests 

 bordering the Ehine Valley. Eejected 6 -feet deodar sleepers are 

 laid 5 feet apart along a roadway with gradients from 5° to 10°, 

 7° being apparently the best of all, and ballasted up with broken 

 stones, etc., and cross sleepers at distances of 2' to 2' '?>" are bolted 

 on to them. On these latter the sledges run in grooves cut 2' 2^" 

 apart in the cross sleepers, and experience has shown that 20 to 25 

 sleepers can be easily conveyed by two men. 



About 6000 feet of the roadway were completed during the 

 year, about 1000 feet remaining. Eight timber viaducts, and 

 bridges of an aggregate length of 550 feet, were also made. 



TI. S. Department of Agrieulture, Miseellancous. Special Report 

 No. 5. The Proper Value and Management of Government 

 Timher Lands and the Distrdjidion of North American Forest 

 Trees, Icing Papers read at the United States Dcpartmc-nt of 

 Agrieidture, May 7-8, 1884. Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. 1884. 



Besides the paper which our space only allows us to give in an 



