648 Forestry Quarterly 



Considering the other problems in hand, the Indian Forest 

 Service has by adding a little each year developed a very large 

 area of forest plantations. Altogether there are now about 

 200,000 acres of planted forest, of which 56,000 are ordinary 

 plantations made by the department and 144,000 acres are "taimg- 

 yas" made in temporary clearings by forest tribes. The expendi- 

 tiires on plantations is $60,000 to $125,000 yearly. There is 

 a tendency to do less planting now, excepting in the Punjab, even 

 though plantations have proved financially successful, because of 

 the impossibility of securing staff and appropriations enough to 

 guarantee the necessary care. The species chiefly planted are 

 teak, sissu, babul, deodar, eucalpytus and casuarina. Over one 

 half the plantations are in Burma, almost one quarter in Madras. 



Financial Aspects 



The outturn of Indian forests is constantly increasing. The 

 total outturn of wood in 1913 to 1914 was 294,643,000 cubic feet, 

 in addition to minor produce valued at $3,600,000. The average 

 outturn per mile on the various classes of forest is : 



Cubic Feet Minor 

 Wood Produce 



Reserved forests 1,931 $28. 30 



Protected forests 3,174 $53.65 



Unclassed forests 582 $ 3 . 00 



The possibilities of forest production in India have been by no 

 means reached, the stock in the reserved forests is constantly in- 

 creasing, there are large areas at present commercially inaccessible 

 which will eventually add greatly to the annual production. In 

 this, India, with its 320,000,000 people the home of a dense 

 population for thousands of years, presents a strange contrast to 

 Canada. That this should be so, is very greatly due to the happy 

 arrival of foresters in India, slightly in advance of what we in 

 America understand as "the development of the country." 



Very little idea of the character of the outturn of the forests may 

 be gained by a comparison of the quantities of lumber and fuel. 

 Utilization is such in India that very small stuff is classified as 

 timber, such as is used for native house poles mending carts or 

 making ploughs. 



The relative quantities of each for 1913 to 1914 were: 



Timber 97,225,170 cubic feet 



Fuel 197,418,153 " " 



