280 SYLVICULTURE IN THE TROPICS r 



T. IV 



explained in the sketch below (Fig. 89), from whence 

 they are all taken to the range office. 



"I., II. , and III. are blocks ; A, B, and C are huts 

 from which the patrol-tickets a, b, and c are started 

 in the morning. The tickets are carried round the 

 blocks in the directions shown by the arrows until 

 they all meet at hut D, from whence they are sent to 

 the range officer. 



"The foresters or senior guards in charge of the 



blocks see that the tickets are carried round regularly 

 each day, and inform the range officer of what is 

 happening in the forests and in the surrounding private 

 lands by separate reports submitted along with the 

 pi i trol - tickets. The range officer thus gets all the 

 news regarding the fire protection of the forests in his 

 charge daily in the evening at his headquarters, where 

 there are a number of men always available for help 

 in case of a fire occurring in the forests. As he finds 

 time he pays surprise visits, sometimes at night, to 



