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Mnraghat Mixed Forest Working-Circle. 





CHAPTER IV. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS. 



Section 1. Thinnirigs, cleanings & weedings See Appendix VIII (c\ 

 48. Sal Working- Circles : After a felling has been made it will 

 be necessary to weed the parts of the coupe which are not already well 

 stocked with sal or do not contain merely mixed or evergreen forests 

 in. which there is no sign of sal reproduction. This weeding or clearing 

 will be annually repeated until the sal is established. On the areas to bfe 

 weeded there is usually a good or fair supply of small sal seedlings, and 

 past experience makes it certain that large numbers of additional sal seed- 

 lings will germinate in the year following the fellings. Though the cover of 

 the numerous reserved sal trees will restrain the growth of inferior 

 trees and plants to some extent, the latter would, nothing being done 

 to help the sal seedlings, rapidly get the better of the latter which 

 will either die or form straggling bushes by the end of the felling 

 rotation. Sal seedlings hold their own fairly well during the year 

 following the improvement felling. In the second year, however, the 

 coppice of inferior species, small creepers, malota seedlings etc., get the better 

 of them and though they do not necessarily suffer greatly up to the end of the 

 second year, they are by that time covered over, pinned down by small, 

 creepers and generally doomed, failing assistance. Nothing being done, 

 they are, by the end of the third year, hopelessly out of the struggle 

 and from that time onwards the survivors only form an undergrowth. 

 A number generally live on till the tenth or twelfth year, and may 

 possibly be capable of surviving much longer, but such survivors make 

 no headway. The question as to the frequency of these weedings and 

 clearings can best be determined by experinwnt, but there is no doubt 



