128 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XVI. Notes on Indian Forestry in 1905. 
By the How. Epiror. 
The latest Review of Forest Administration in British India 
enables one to form some idea, though only an imperfect one, 
of the vast importance of the woodlands to that empire. The 
outturn in timber and fuel was 246,000,000 cubic feet, while 
323,000,000 bamboos and over £300,000 worth of minor pro- 
duce were extracted—about one-third of all of which were ex- 
tracted free of charge by right-holders or grantees living in the 
vicinity of the forests, to a total value of £220,000. Without 
including any credit for this sum in the accounts, the gross 
revenue was £ 1,298,100, the total expenditure £548,147, and 
the net surplus £749,953. 
The work of selecting, “settling” or fixing the legal status, 
and demarcating the State Forests, is still going on, although 
this has been vigorously proceeded with for over thirty years. 
There are nearly 94,000 square miles of feserves and 150,000 
square miles of State-managed forests, while 1485 square miles 
in Burma and Madras form the last tracts finally settled as 
reserves, and 2363 square miles are still under settlement. In 
Bengal there are 74,000 miles of reserve-boundaries, in Madras 
34,000, and in Bombay 45,000, while about 24,000 miles still 
remain to be demarcated with cairns, numbered posts, etc. The 
detailed survey of the demarcated forests is also proceeding 
steadily, as working-plans cannot be formed until maps are 
available. : 
The area of reserved forests protected by cleared lines as fire- 
traces amounts to 36,651 square miles, most of which is patrolled 
by watchers, although part of this is left without special super- 
vision, with the inevitable result that fires are there not so 
successfully excluded. 
In an agricultural country like India, in many parts of which 
the forests are the only places where green succulent food is 
easily obtainable for the cattle during the hot, dry season of the 
year, grazing is a question of vital importance; and it is there- 
fore satisfactory to learn that year by year the grazing question 
comes nearer to a Satisfactory solution for those concerned. 
Only about 17 per cent. of the State Forests are at present 
entirely closed to cattle, and in time of scarcity these would be 
