Periodical Literature. 473 



Glover gives an interesting account of 

 Light Firing the progress which has been made in the 



in Punjab toward light firing in Chir pine 



British India. forests to prevent the excessive damage 



that occurs after a forest has been success- 

 fully protected from fire a number of years and then subjected to 

 a general conflagration. The forest conference of last year re- 

 solves : 



That the principle of Departmental firing in Chir for- 

 ests, coupled with the regular method of regeneration be 

 accepted * * and that experiments regarding the 

 feasibility of introducing a similar scheme into the 

 Kangra Division be carried out. 



Details of the methods followed are described. The firing is 

 usually done during the winter months, the object being "to keep 

 the fire line moving regularly and evenly down hill." The article 

 concludes with an account of the damage to a tree crop, under- 

 growth and soil cover, and the writer summarizes the experiments 

 as showing "most conclusively that, except in regeneration areas, 

 woods can be fired on a larger scale without doing appreciable 

 damage to the Chir." It is recommended, however, that the selec- 

 tion system be abandoned for these areas, and that a uniform 

 system be adopted as being more suitable, since the regeneration 

 could then be protected more systematically. It is argued that 

 there is no reason why forests where trees are tapped for resin 

 should not be similarly burned provided the bases of the tapped 

 trees are first cleared of needles and grasses, as is now the practice 

 on the Florida National Forest in the United States. 



T. S. W., Jr. 



Departmental Firing in Chir Forests in Punjab. Indian Forester, June, 

 19 14, pp. 292-306. 



An anonymous writer describes the poor 



Natural Regeneration results which have followed the use of the 



of Deodar. selection system, the selection system in 



groups, and the group system in the deodar 



forests of the Himalaya Mountains in British India. A new 



method was proposed early in 1914 which bids fair to give success. 



The entire layer of decaying vegetable debris was dug 

 up, raked together into heaps along with the larger refuse 



