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PART II. 

 FUTURE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSED AND PRESCRIBED. 



CHAPTER I. BASIS OF PROPOSALS. 



ARTICLE 1. Working Circles how composed ; Reasons for their Formation. 



83. Of the four main types which compose the stock, the teak and miscellaneous types 

 require and will always require one and the same mode of treatment, while the sal type is 

 in such a ruined condition that it is for the present unfitted for any other intrinsically 

 different method of exploitation. Hence from a sylvicultural point of view there need be 

 only a single working circle. For convenience of administration, however, it is expedient 

 and necessary to constitute four working circles conterminous with, and named after, the five 

 Ranges, viz., Murwara, Sihora, .Tubbulpore, Bargi and Dhanwahi. 



ARTICLE 2. Compartments; Justification of the Sub-division adopted. 



84. For the examination of the forests preliminary to the framing of the present pro- 

 posals, the smaller blocks have been treated as single compartments, while the larger blocks 

 have been divided into two or more compartments. These proposals being of a very ele- 

 mentary character, an elaborate parcelling out of the forests would have been entirely super- 

 fluous. But for the future the formation of compartments of convenient size cannot be 

 dispensed with, and the best compartments will be the coupes to be now adopted. 



ARTICLE 3. Analysis of the Crop ; Method of Valuation employed. 



85. An analysis of the crop has been effected in the roughest manner consonant with 

 the inferior character of the crop, the simple requirements of the consumers and the low 

 prices prevailing. No valuation survey has been made, but the density of the stocking in 

 different parts has been estimated with the eye and the distribution of the four main types of 

 growth has been noted in a general manner ; the results, however, not being worth recording 

 here. 



CHAPTER II. METHOD OF TREATMENT. 



86. The remarks in this Chapter do not apply to the treatment of bamboos, which is 

 prescribed in paras. 117 119 below. 



ARTICLE 1. Objects sought to be attained. 



87. The main objects to be sought are : 



(i) The replacement of the present scrubby, generally crooked, often unhealthy growth 

 which is capable of yielding scarcely anything better than firewood, by a new stock composed 

 of a larger proportion of the better species and consisting of straight sound stems, some of 

 which will in time develop into moderate-sized and even large timber. 



(ii) The augmentation of the production in respect of every article by means of con- 

 servative and specially directed management. 



(iii) The timely utilisation of deteriorating material and of material which no amount 

 of preservation can improve. 



(iv) While accomplishing these three objects specially connected with the maintenance 

 and improvement of the forests and their economic utilisation, constant provision of a sufficient 

 area for grazing and supply of wood within easy distance of every village requiring pasturage 

 and timber and fuel. 



(v) Special provision of a cheap and continuous supply of firewood for the iron-smelt- 

 ing industry with a view to revive and encourage it. 



(vi) Improvement of communications and cheapening of transport so as to render all 

 the remoter forests accessible to one or more great centres of demand. 



ARTICLE 2. Method of Treatment adopted. 



88. The treatment in general will be a course of improvement fellings, in which, as in 

 the climate and soils in question, artificial regeneration cannot be depended on at all and 

 natural reproduction by seed would be far too slow a process to be trusted by itself to yield the 

 desired results within a reasonable time, coppicing will play a large part in order that all un- 

 promising stems capable of producing good stool-shoots or suckers may be made to contribute 

 directly towards the formation of the new regenerate crop. This general method of treatment 



