MANAGEMENT OF TEAK FORESTS. 



any Teak trees on the ground, it will be useless planting near 

 them, indeed a radius of thirty feet should be kept clear. In 

 selecting a piece of ground for planting up with Teak, it 

 will be advisable not to have too many Teak trees on it. 

 It will also be well to clear it of bushes, and to make the 

 holes when the ground is free from grass, before putting in 

 the crow-bar, it will be best if there is grass, to cut out a 

 sod a foot square, to prevent the grass from strangling the 

 young plants. A square block is best to select as more 

 easily watched. A fire-path should be cut round it at least Fire-path, 

 six feet wide and fire rigidly kept out, for, should the young 

 plant survive an attack of fire, the disease of heartshake is 

 established, and it is the constant forest fires that cause 

 heartshake by damaging the young saplings. 



As most of our Teak forests consist of one to two hundred Carriage facilities, 

 square miles, it is obvious that the area to be supervised 

 being so enormous, the planting requires to be concentrated 

 as much as possible, and in selecting blocks for planting up, 

 it is best to have a regard to facilities of carriage by water 

 or by land. 



Assuming that we do not rely altogether on germinated Sites. 

 seed, but resolve to form a regular plantation, to replace 

 the annual demand, for timber, we select a block of land 

 that is accessible by road or water and the soil and climata 

 suitable for it often, happens that the eastern end of a 

 forest may be dry and the soil indifferent, and the western 

 though, only ten miles distant, possesses a different climate 

 and soil, in fact both suitable for Teak growing, the only 

 drawback being the extra cost of carriage. It is far better 

 to pay the extra cost rather than have an indifferent planta- 

 tion. As shown above, the demands are fifty thousand cubic 

 feet annually. We must, therefore, plant a sufficient area to 

 produce something more than that amount annually at the 

 end of thirty years. The annual increase of Teak may be 

 taken in a favorable situation at one cubic foot a year. At Growth of Teak. 

 Nellumbore it is over two cubic feet annually. That is a 

 tree forty years old will have forty cubic feet of marketable 



