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The grazing problem is logically handled. It is felt that the 

 stock must be provided for, and that properly regulated it can be 

 made to assist reproduction. For instance, before a reproduction 

 cutting, heavy grazing may be allowed. Afterwards it may be 

 totally excluded until the second crop is sufficiently established. 



Natural reproduction has been and is being carefully studied, 

 but there is room for the application of scientific experimental 

 station methods and if these had been applied years ago, many of 

 the perplexing problems would now be solved instead of being a 

 matter of controversy. For example, does burning in a teak for- 

 est improve reproduction? If so, is this improvement sufficient 

 to warrant burning the humus? What is the total net gain or 

 loss? What methods of cutting promote the reproduction of 

 deodar, chir pine, or sal ? These are some of the problems which 

 have been solved but in regard to which there is still some doubt. 

 Reviews of the annual administrative reports bring out the lack 

 of artificial reforestation. It is believed that a larger area should 

 be annually artifically reforested than is now being done. At 

 present there is practically but little planting or sowing done in 

 India, considering the total acreage under forests. 



Working plans have been prepared for a comparatively small 

 area. The main objection to these plans has been that they have 

 not been made by the men most capable of making them, and 

 they have not always been entirely practicable and workable. 

 In regulating the yield the natural loss through suppression or 

 other causes has never been studied with sufficient care ; this is an 

 uncertain factor which I believe some day may lead to local over- 

 cutting. Judging by our standards the growth figures upon 

 which many of the cutting plans are based have been insufficient 

 to warrant the inferences drawn. Nor have the volume tables 

 been sufficiently accurate, although the yield has ordinarily been 

 based on area and number of trees rather than the cubic foot — a 

 detail which has made the working plans more practicable. 



While the education of the ranger force at Dehra Dun, for 

 example, has been greatly perfected, yet there is need for an 

 increase in the number of forest schools in order to secure a 

 locally educated ranger force familiar with the problems with 

 which it must deal. As compared with the United States the 

 publicity movement which is, of course, of great educational 



