46. (a) Six months before a compartment is worked, its boundaries should 

 be marked on the ground where no natural features are 



Nature of and mode of exe- .. . . . , .. i i r j 



curing the fellings ; forecast of available by a io-ieet line cut through the torest and 

 condition of erop at their con- ma rked at suitable intervals with posts surrounded by 



elusion. . . j. , 



cairns or munaras and ditches. 



(b) After the demarcation is complete and before any felling is allowed, the 

 Range and Sub-Range Officers should select and mark all the trees that are to 

 be protected and reserved as standards. 



Reserves should be selected in numbers varying from 40 per acre on good 

 soil and in dense timber cover to 80 per acre in open forest and slopes of 

 hills, as far as easily accessible. On very poor and thinly clad areas all timber 

 should be reserved. 



(c) No well-grown teak trees or good saplings of and under nine inches in 

 girth should be felled. Well-grown sound trees of the better species should be 

 selected for reserves. Healthy fruit trees such as mahua, char and harra, which 

 yield profitable fruit products and are otherwise good for shade and protection, 

 should also be reserved. 



(d} No fellings should be allowed to approach within 66 feet of any outer 

 boundary or interior line, river bank, road, extensive blank or big ravine. 



(<?) No fellings to be made on the tops of hills which are more or less open. 



(/) All trees cut must be felled flush with the ground and the stools cleared 

 of branch wood and other impediments to the shoot growth. 



(g) When compartments have been worked over they should be isolated from 

 the adjoining forest by burnt lines 50 feet wide. 



No teak leaves will be removed. 



47. At the conclusion of the rotation it is expected that the soil and density 

 of the crop will have improved. Straight grown coppice shoots rising 

 direct from the ground will have taken the place of the present badly grown crop 

 so far as the demand admits of this improvement, and a better proportion of 

 seedling growth, especially of the more valuable species, will have been secured. 



