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that they should be begun not more tha,n two years after the improve- 

 ment felling and should be continued vill the fifth year^ (inclusive) 

 after that felling. It will probably be fou&ti to cost less if a preliminary 

 thinning and weeding, consisting of a cutting back of the neighbouring 

 coppice shoots and rooting up of small seedlings of less valuable species, 

 is made in the first year after felling. It is accordingly prescribed 

 that after an improvement felling, each coupe so dealt with, should 

 be weeded and cleaned every year for five years in accordance with the 

 table given in Appendix. VIII. C. These cleanings will hardly be necessary 

 or possible in those coupes where there is no demand for trees of inferior 

 species. The results of these weedings should be considered after the fifth 

 year, i. e., in 1909-10 when a supplementary table of weedings or cleanings 

 should, if necessary, be prescribed. 



Section 2. Creeper cutting. See Appendix VIII (d). 



49. Sal WorkingC-ircles. The large trees in the Muraghat Working. 

 Circle, Series I of the Apalchand Working-Circle and a great part of the 

 Lower Tondu Working-Circle, have been cleared of climbers, and it will 

 be sufficient if, in these areas, climbers are cut in the year preceding 

 the felling and this may well be done at the time of marking the coupe. 

 In the Chengmari (Apalchand,) Gosaih&t and that part of the Tondu 

 forest in which climbers have been untouched, they will be cut as soon 

 as possible. The whole of this work is prescribed for the first year 

 and any balance not cut must be worked over as early as possible in 

 succeeding years. 



50. Mixed Working-Circles -The mere cutting of creepers in 

 coupes recently felled is hopeless, and though it has been tried over and 

 over again in the coppice coupes, owing to the vigour of the regrowth, 

 no trace of it is apparent. The killing out of creepers cannot be accom- 

 plished until there is a fairly complete canopy overhead. A systematic 

 attempt to eliminate creepers altogether should, therefore, be deferred 

 till the tenth year after the coupe has been worked out. Where, as in the 

 Chapramari coupe, there is a fair amount of sal reproduction, though 

 there are few mature sal trees, measures should be taken to keep these 

 cleaned annually. 



Section 3. Grazing and other rights. 



51- Grazing will be allowed in all areas where it is at present 

 permitted The chief gracing grounds are the Oainah and Jaldaka forests, 

 and the value of the grazing is probably far greater than that of the wood 

 produced on these areas. There are no grazing or other rights requiring 

 control. 

 Cection 4. Sowings, planting, o>' other works special to each Circle. 



52. The sowing of lampatia and tun in the annual coupe in the 

 Sipchu series will be continued and, if labour can be obtained, similar 

 sowings may be carried out in other coupes of the Tondu Mixed Forest 

 Working-Circle. There are no very suitable sites for forest villages in this 

 Working-Circle, even if it was not infested by wild elephants, and local 

 labour is very difficult to obtain during the rainy season. Experiments 

 should be made to get over the difficulty of the cleared soil in beds, prepar- 

 ed for sowing, being washed down by heavy rain, before the seedlings 

 become properly established, without throwing too heavy a shade over them. 



