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of the second class to attain first-class size before girdling is resumed 

 in any one part. When the map of the Upper Tavoy forests is com- 

 pleted, it will be possible to devise an annual plan of operations for 

 the Pyingado and other valuable forests in that locality. 



The Deputy Conservator at Moulmein investigated and dealt with 

 fifty-five cases of breaches of forest rules. Measures undertaken 

 during the past season for the protection of the usual reserves from 

 fire have been on the whole successful. There were early showers, 

 which unfortunately caused the protective establishments to relax 

 their vigilance. However, out of 62,000 acres attempted, over 50,000 

 were successfully protected against fire. 



The sanctioned reserves in this circle being either in the hills, 

 where cattle are not reared, nr in sparsely-populated localities, are all 

 free from rights of ' graziug.' "When the Kyaukket reserve was in 

 course of being demarcated the question of allowing grazing for 

 elephants was raised, but it was deemed advisable to exclude a 

 definite area in toto for this purpose in preference to allowing such 

 rights within the reserves. The proposed Martaban reserve is, 

 however, an exception, being in the plains near Moulmein, and wlien 

 sanctioned will provide a considerable grazing area to the villages in 

 its vicinity. The department has not been under the necessity 

 of fencing-in any of the reserves, and the villagers are, on the 

 whole, careful to prevent their cattle from trespassing on adjoining 

 reserves. 



With regard to natural reproduction, hardly any observations were 

 submitted by divisional ofticers during this year in any of the Teak 

 localities, their time having been fully occupied with other urgent 

 duties. On the hills where Teak occurs in bamboo jungle, and along 

 the edge of the dry forests on the crests of the ridges, seedlings 

 appeared to be plentiful, and promising trees of the third class in 

 fair proportion, being about treble the number of second-class trees 

 on twenty acres which were examined. The artificial reproduction 

 of Teak in taungyas was continued, but smaller areas were taken in. 

 hand than in the previous year. This reduction is chieHy due to 

 certain new conditions regarding the collection of Teak seed proving 

 distasteful to some of the older hands among the cultivators, each in- 

 dividual being expected to collect two baskets at a cost of one rupee 

 per basket. Owing to some surplus seed of indifferent quality of the 

 previous year being used in two places, the area successfully culti- 

 vated was only eighty-four acres. In accordance with the orders of 

 Government these Teak plantations on the taungya system have been 

 included with the regular plantations in the same schedule. The 

 regular Teak plantations are very small in extent, dating chiefiy from 

 the 3^ear 1856, and it is not intended to add to them. The work of 



