It is hardly necessary to add that the coupes will be annual and that they are as equal in 

 area as the adoption of well-marked natural boundaries has permitted. 



95. All B class forests have been excluded from the prescriptions of this Article, as with 

 scarcely a single exception they will soon be disforested for settlement on ryotwari principles. 

 The provisions of Revenue Book Circular VII 15 will be fully carried out in the event of 

 disforestment. In the contrary case, the areas will be transferred to class A and at once 

 brought into the General Working Scheme sketched above. 



ARTICLE 2. Period for which the Fellings have been prescribed. 



9*5. Absolutely speaking and in view of the radical economic changes which will 

 certainly follow upon the application of this working plan, it would be best to limit its cur- 

 rency to ten years. But as a rotation of 30 years has been adopted for many of the forest.-, 

 the fellings have, in compliance with the orders of the Inspector-General of Forests on the 

 original Bargi Range Draft Plan, been prescribed for 30 years. 



ARTICLE 3. Fellings whether annual or periodical ; Method of their A llotrnent. 



97. In every series the fellings will succeed one another annually and their succession 

 has been so arranged as to interfere as little as possible with the convenience of the villagers 

 in respect of their grazing and other requirements. No one will ever have to go further than 

 3 miles from his village to get his wood or pasturage for his cattle. 



ARTICLE 4. Nature of, and Mode of executing, the Fellings; Forecast of Condition of 



Crop at their Conclusion. 



98. The nature of the fellings to be made has been generally described in paras. 91 93 

 above; it therefore merely remains to particularize them for the groups into which the 

 forests have been classed in Article 1 above. 



99. Firstly, as regards the four sal blocks (Machmacha, Khitoli, Karela and Sutri) 

 situated in the Murwara Range, which are to be managed specially for the production of 

 laree timber. They contain a very large proportion of crooked or otherwise unpromising 

 poles and a few badly-grown, more or less unsound trees of moderate dimensions. These 

 should be got rid of, provided of course that they are marketable and their removal does 

 not over-expose the soil, the main end to be kept in view being to favour the free develop- 

 ment of the most promising individuals (the large timber of the future), to give overtopped 

 young growth the amount of light they require and to provoke new reproduction by seed of 

 sal and of the more valuable timber-yielding species. At the same time ill-grown saplings and 

 thin poles of these species which stand clear under the sky, should be cut back in order 

 to raise up in their place good coppice shoots with a future. In frosty localities great 

 .prudence should be exercised. 



100. Secondly, as regards the areas to be worked specially for fuel for iron-smelting. 

 Here the principles of the coppice-with-standards system will be observed in their entirety. 

 No hard-and-fast rule as to the number of standards to be preserved can, however, be laid 

 down. In some places, the crop will consist mainly of shrubby species, which it would be 

 manifestly absurd to reserve. If it is objected that cover must be left on the ground to 

 secure immunity from frost-bite and drought, there is the unanswerable reply, based on 

 long and repeated local experience, that 40 or even 60 little scare-crow! ike standards to the 

 acre can afford absolutely no protection against frost or the sun. Sceptics in regard to this 

 fact have only to visit those parts of the district where our coupes, cut on the rule of 40 or 

 60 standards to the acre, lie side by side with private woodlands which have been clean cut 



