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Leaving 1,560 stems per acre, average d. b. h. 4" and ave\r-^ 

 age height 42 feet. 



Thinned in 191 2, age 28 years. 



Taking out ^95 stems per acre, average d. b. h. 5" cmd average 

 height 48 feet. 



Leaving 1,064 ^tons per acre, averaging 6" , and average height 

 57 feet. K. W. W. 



Wuchsleistungen von Psetidotsuga Douglasii. Forstwissenschaftliches 

 Centralblatt. July, 1913. Pp. 337-351- 



Fischer, continuing the controversy as to 

 Pire Damage the benefits of fire protection in teak for- 

 to ests, gives the results of a sample plot 



Teak. measured in a mixed open teak for- 



est with scanty undergrowth and poor re- 

 generation of the better species, which has been successfully 

 protected from fire for 25 to 30 years. He estimates that only 

 of late years are the beneficial results of fire protection apparent. 

 The plot was taken at an elevation of about 2,900 feet where 

 the average rainfall was 60 inches. Trees 10 inches or less in 

 diameter did not show signs of injury by fire and consequently 

 they apparently started since fire protection commenced. Dam- 

 age to the mature timber from fire protection was extremely 

 significant. 



I tree showing very slight signs, but the tree is dead, 

 13 trees with comparatively slight injuries. 

 13 trees with serious injury, but partly fit for timber. 

 107 trees seriously injured and unfit for timber and may 

 be unfit for anything but firewood. 

 This refers to coupe V, Punachi Working Circle, in the 

 Anaimalai Hills of South Coimbatore. T. S. W., Jr. 



Damage to Teak by Fire, Indian Forester, September, 1913, pp. 434-435. 

 435- 



A writer using the pen name of Tao Hai 



Taungya discusses in great detail the Taung>'a prob- 



Problem. lem in the Shan States ; namely, whether 



to allow the sporadic clearance of potential 



forest land by wandering tribes as a recognized agricultural 



system of the country. The solution is complicated by the need 



