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portion of the animals for which rights have been given have, up to 

 the present date, been grazed in the forests. 



"The corresponding figures for the Central Provinces are as follows : 



"The forests in the Central Province^ are deciduous, and do not 

 yield large timber. The population is 139 to the square mile, compared 

 to 55 in Burma." 



In 1918-19 there were 21:7 square miles of plantations (chiefly of 

 teak and sissham) yielding from nine to eleven dollars net per acre 

 per year. These plantations were planted waste land (in large blocks) 

 rather than small areas within existing forests. The exports and 

 imports of forest produce are as follows : 



The volume in million board feet, in the case of timber, and the 

 volume in tons of 20 cwt. in the case of other products, as well as the 

 value in dollars of the forest products exported during 1918-19 is 

 shown in the following table : 



A little under 98 per cent of the lac exported consists of shellac. 

 Lac, like rubber, is a crop and not a natural forest product. Most 

 of the lac is grown outside the Government forests, and very little 



