GENERAL REMARKS. .'39 



the soil is best and local moisture the greatest. To increase 



reproduction, the same plan should be followed as laid down Increase of dry 



for Teak, viz., crow-bar pits and germinated seed wherever, 



practicable. I have impressed upon the Forester the absolute 



necessity of germinated seed, the sowing broadcast except 



under very favorable conditions is nine times out of ten a 



failure. Ifc will, of course, be advisable to select the most 



valuable kinds for reproduction, such as certain Terminalias, 



viz., Glabra, Coriaria, Hardwickia, binata, Soymida's febri- Best kind of trees. 



fuga, Acacias there is a long list to choose from, and only 



those should be selected that appear to thrive in semi-dry 



forests. It would be useless to plant Teak in the Cuddapah 



Hills, because trees found there are stunted; very frequently, 



it will be found in a semi-dry forest that whilst Teak is 



stunted, Vengay and Kura Hurra thrive. In some of the 



Salem Hills, red cedar flourishes in the ravines at some 



elevation. 



In the north Sal is found in enormous quantities, on the Red cedar, &c. 

 Ballyrungums, the Michellia grows to great dimensions, 

 Mesua and Hopea in our Canarese forests, also in Tinne- 

 velly, see Beddome's Keport, 18th August 1867, Appendix, 

 Forest Report, 1867-68, No. 105, 20th April 1878, Beddome 

 on Nellumbore. 



CHAPTER V. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



IN the Forest Report (mine), 1871-72, Board of Revenue Fore8fc fires> cat . 



Remark, 5th August 1871, No. 3284, that " fires do not harm fcle ^mage done 



quite the contrary," on this I wrote, " of course, fires have 



their advantages, they render the jungle less pestiferous, 



and the young grass comes up earlier, but fires ruin saplings 



and should never be allowed in a reserved forest, but the 



difficulty is to prevent them. Formerly before the Forest 



Department was organized, there were three special causes 



which threatened to ruin all forests, viz., the pernicious 



practice indulged in by the people of cutting saplings instead 



