4 MANAGEMENT OF TEAK FORESTS. 



timber if properly trained. Teak trees, if well planted and 

 pruned, can be drawn up to sixty and seventy feet without 

 a branch. This is done first by close planting, second by 

 pruning, if you plant six by six and thin out at the twelfth 

 year always presuming that your treeshave grown fast, then 

 you will secure a good straight growtnX 



There is but little demand in 'India for curved timber, 

 consequently to prevent loss and waste it is essential to 

 g il s . secure straight growth, (fhe best soil for a Teak plantation 



is a sandy clay on the banks of a stream, the ground should 

 slope gently towards the stream, if too steep, the soil on the 

 top of the hill is apt to be indifferent. There are other soils 

 such as a brown surface soil with a rather retentive sub-soil 

 of yellow clay, in such a place Teak grows well. 



From Mudumalli in the south to the end of the Wynaad 

 Forests in the north there are thousands of acres suitable 

 for planting. In Wynaad there is water carriage from the 

 Cubbany river to near Mysore. In Mudumalli at a distance 

 of some ten miles is the high road to Mysore. In the Ana- 

 mullies the soil and climate are well suited for the growth 

 of Teak, and numerous sites could be chosen ; at Nellumbore 

 there are stilL^pme five thousand acres suitable for Teak 

 > plantations. Hj^Jftct if Teak planting was pursued with 

 | J\ energy at the rate of one thousand acres a year, there is 

 sufficient land to occupy the-J^prest Department in planting 

 for the next century and more\ There is but little Teak in 

 Madura or Tinnevelly, and there must be some suitable sites 

 Locality for sites, in those localities. Teak, it will be observed, grows at the 

 sea-level, the foot of the Carcoor Ghat near Nellumbore is 

 only five hundred feet above the sea, and it grows well on 

 some of the hills in Wynaad over three thousand feet in 

 elevation, given a fair soil and plenty of moisture, Teak 

 grows well, but does not stand drying easterly winds. When 

 inexperienced people see Teak that has luvn cut over, and 

 throwing up large shoots with large leaves, tin -y imagine at 

 once that the soil and climate are suitable !'>r Teak and that, 

 some primeval forest of Teak once existed :iul had been 



