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(c) all large spreading sal trees with short boles and surrounded 

 with a good growth of young sal saplings. 



In addition to this, thinnings will be made amoogst dense sal poles, 

 some of which must be suppressed in the course of the next fifteen years. 

 These latter must be marked with great care. The exploitation of other 

 kinds of trees will consist in the removal of all trees over 18" girth where 

 there is a demand for them, but where there is no such demand, only 

 those trees which dominate advance growth of sal should be cut. As the 

 cutting of the inferior species of trees cannot benefit the advance growth 

 of sal unless it is followed by the successive weedings and cleanings 

 prescribed in para. 48 it is necessary to prescribe that the cutting of 

 such trees in sal areas shall not continue unless the weedings, are up to 

 date. It may be noted that it is anticipated that there will be a large 

 demand for inferior trees for fuel in the Muraghat Sal Working-Circle and 

 in Series I of the Apalchand Sal Working- Circle, but there will probably 

 1)0 little demand for fuel in the Lower Tondu Sal Working-Circle and 

 Series II of the Apalchand Sal Working-Circle 



The Improvement fellings will practically be Coppice fellings in those 

 areas devoid of sal and containing only evergreen or mixed species of trees. 



44. Mixed Working-Circle. Standards should be selected before 

 coppice felling starts- All promising trees of the following species of less 

 than 7 feet in girth being marked for reservation, i. e., sal, sissu, champ, 

 tun, yoyuldhup, mallagiri, kainjal, simal and kadam. 



Where the foi'est consists of almost pure khnir, not less than forty 

 poles to the acre should be reserved- Where there is any considerable 

 amount of sal, the fellings should, as far as possible, resemble the Improve- 

 ment fellings prescribed in the sat areas. It will probably be unnecessary 

 to work over the sal forest included in these Working-Circles. Should it, 

 however, be found necessary to do so, it must be worked over under 

 the method of Improvement fellings laid down for Sal Working-Circles. It 

 is not anticipated that any exploitation will take place in the Mura- 

 ghat, mixed Working-Circle owing to want of demand at present, as tea 

 gardens in the vicinity have sufficient firewood in their grants to last 

 them another ten years. 



Section 5. Forecast of the condition of the crop at the conclusion 

 of the I Mings. 



45- Sal Working-Circles. Where trees of inferior species are sale- 

 able, there should be a considerable increase in the stand of sal timber. 

 Trees of all ages will be well represented, and there should be a good 

 stock of sal saplings to form an extension of sal forest wherever the soil is 

 suitable for the growth of sal. Trees of miscellaneous species will all 

 be of comparatively small dimensions. Where inferior trees cannot be 

 disposed of, improvements will probably be less marked. 



46. Mixed Working-Circles- This will contain forest of coppice 

 shoots and seedlings, chiefly of miscellaneous species, but with a higher 

 proportion of sal, champ and other more valuable species. The coppiced 

 forest will range in age from 1 to 20 years and each of the age classes will 

 occupy approximately equal areas unless there are fluctuations in the 

 demand. There will also be patches of high forest of sal, particularly in the 

 Lower Tondu, as the demand will not, in these series, reach the supply avail- 

 able. The sal area in Dumchi will also be held in reserve- It is possible that 

 the remote portions of the forest in the Upper Tondu series may not be 

 completely worked over owing to the increasing use of coal of 

 which the price already low may fall still lower- 



