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gleaned from legends of the country, which tell of "hills covered with 

 stretches of boundless forests." 



The conclusions reached by the author are : Afforestation is practi- 

 cable, but not everywhere ; that, considering the difficulties to be over- 

 come, afiforestation should be experimental in character and limited in 

 extent ; the fertile tracts in the hills and portions of the broken plains 

 not given over to agriculture should be the field for experiment. 



Indian Forester, October, 1918, pp. 476-485. 



MENSURATION, FINANCE, AND MANAGEMENT 



An interesting financial transaction is reported 

 Is Forest in detail by Luttrell concerning a plantation made 



Planting in 1881 with 137 Douglas fir in lo-foot spacing. 



ProHtahle? The harvest in 1918 yielded 2,459 cubic feet of 



round timber and pitwood, sold at $1,336. Ex- 

 penses of lumbering were $218, leaving net receipts of $1,117, or ap- 

 proximately at the rate of $2,259 P^^ acre. 



There are Douglas fir upward of 40 feet high growing outside the 

 plot and self-sown from it. 



The plot was replanted in 1918 by National Service women with 

 Japanese larch, which have made a good start. 



Quarterly Journal of Forestry. January, 1919, pp. 58-59. 



UTILIZATION, MARKET, AND TECHNOLOGY 



A review is here given of the results obtained 

 Treatment by the forest department after years of experi- 



of mental work in the treatment of Indian timbers 



Timber for sleepers and published by Mr. Pearson in 



"Antiseptic Treatment of Timber Recording Re- 

 sults from Past Experiments." This work is said to be very replete 

 in information. There are 32 species included. All of the standard 

 and well-known treatments were used. Mr. Pearson states that "it is 

 difficult to lay sufficient stress on the importance of seasoning timber 

 before treatment, for unless proper care is taken in this respect any 

 undertaking of this nature will be doomed to failure." In dry, hot 

 localities the moisture content should not exceed 15 per cent and in 

 humid localities 25 per cent. Steaming at 250°, in cylinders, followed 

 by vacuum and also boiling in oil at 230° F. is used. Pressure plant 



