63. A few words are necessary regarding the nature of the above fellings. Since the 

 past two years they have been for all practical purposes coppice-with-standards fellings ; the 

 crop being everywhere composed of crooked or unsound or stunted and hide-bound stems, 

 nearly every individual requires to be cut back in order to produce a new generation with 

 some promise before it. Before 1897-98 the fellings were restricted to those places where 

 the density of the crop was higher than , and not only this, but the proportion of the crop 

 removed was variable : whereas in some coupes only 40 60 stems per acre were left as stand- 

 ards, in others only a stem here and there was taken out, the selection in either case depend- 

 ing on no fixed principles, but almost exclusively on the judgment of the coolie employed to 

 mark the coupe in question. The rule now is that no one of lower standing than a Sub-range 

 Officer shall mark a coupe and that the Divisional Officer himself shall every year operate 

 over limited areas in each Sub-range, thus providing models for the guidance of his subordinates, 



C. Cultural Operations. 



64. As a rule, these operations consisted in scattering with the hand mixed seeds over 



patches 2 feet X 2 feet and 10 20 feet apart from edge to edge. 

 nil. The areas thus treated were as below : 



The results are absolutely 



Year. 

 1891-92 



A small area in Block 84. 



1893-94 ... 5 acres in Block 11, 15 acrei in Block 41, 31 acres in Block 46 and 3 acres 

 in Block 80. 



1894-95 



4 acres in Block 113. 



In 1886-87 a small plantation of teak and sissoo was made in Block 46 on the bank of 

 the Gaur river, result again nil. 



A few coupes, after being felled, were sown broadcast without any preliminary preparation 

 of the ground, in one case (Block 11, which originally contained no bamboo at all) bamboo 

 seed being used. A few bamboo seedlings 23 feet high are still to be found after a minute 

 search, while as regards the other species the results are obviously impossible to distinguish 

 owing to the presence also of self-sown plants. 



