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first branch of 50 feet, the girth between 4' 6'' and 6' 5" ; this would give 91 trees 

 to the acre. Full stocked forests of Oak and Beech in Europe 130 180 years old 

 nnder favourable conditions contain 120 140 trees per acre, with a cubic contents 

 (including tops and branches) of about 11,000 cubic feet, A forest of silver fir in 

 the Jura, 180 years old, was found to contain 94 trees per acre, with a cubic contents 

 of 16,000 feet. 



The total area now stocked at Nilambur is 3,436 acres, of which 1,787 are stocked 

 with a full crop on alluvial soil, the rest not being expected to yield a full crop. In 

 his estimate of the future value of the plantations, Colonel Beddome only assumes 

 6,000 cubic feet as the full crop expected on alluvial soil. 



Mr. Carter reports from Burma that at Magayee and Kyekpyoogau in each plan- 

 tation the trees upon acre were measured. A breadth of 24 feet and a length of 

 454 feet was given to this area, so as by extending over a greater portion of the plan- 

 tation, to avoid the experiment being confined to a small spot on which the growth 

 was particularly good. But this strip was not taken in a part of the plantation which 

 contained many blanks, but rather in a part which wavS well stocked without choosing 

 the very finest parts of the plantation. These measurements then do not profess 

 to shew the exact state of the plantations, but to give data which are nearly normal. 

 In the 1873 and 1872 plantations after the deduction of the mean girth, 3 sample 

 trees in each were felled and the contents calculated by sections, the length of which 

 were taken at 2 feet. In the 1875, 1874, 1869 and 1870 plantations only one sample 

 tree in each was cut ; and in those of 1876 and 1871 no trees were cut, enough data 

 being to hand as to the reducing factor to enable the contents of an average tree to be 

 calculated without its being felled. In the 1871 plantation only were the heights and 

 girths so divergent as to render the separation of the trees into two classes with a 

 sample tree for each necessary. The plantation of 1868 at Kyekpyoogau is so poorly- 

 stocked and so badly grown that no measurements were taken as they would have 

 been valueless for comparison. 



The results, as might be expected from plantations with only an interval of one 

 year, diverge very widely. 



The plantations of 3 and 4 years shew an abnormally high annual increment ; 

 those of a 8, 9 and 10 years an abnormally low one, attributable to their increase for 

 the last 3 years being almost nil, due most probably to fire and in part also to cater- 

 pillars consuming the first growth of leaves. 



In natural forests, \\hnv Teak is associated \\itli bamboos and other trees, the 

 number of first and second clav -Teak MV.-S (alx.ve 1' <!" in girth) rarely attains 10 



