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were six seed trees per acre, ranging 

 in girth from 2*4 to 3^4. feet. There 

 were 818 trees under 5 feet in height, 

 and 1,3 1 2 over 5 feet, or a total of 

 2,130 per acre. There were four 

 blanks on the two acres, averaging 30 

 feet in diameter and amounting to one- 

 eleventh of an acre. The other plot 

 was 1.6 acres in area and is in the 

 Chatragodh Block of the Jaunsar For- 

 est. The first seed felling was made 

 in 1885, and the final removal of seed 



can lumbering, these trees were all 

 sawed or chopped into lumber where 

 they were felled in the forest. On the 

 1.6 acres there were 6 blanks with 

 average diameters of 28 feet or only 

 about one-twelfth of an acre. With 

 successful fire protection a fully stocked 

 chir pine forest is assured, and this at 

 practically no expense (see fig. 7). The 

 illustrations, figures 1 to 7, show the 

 chir forest before, during, and after 

 these reproduction cuttings have been 



Fig. 7. Final results obtained by natural chir pine reproduction on the Tons River . 

 On the left a fire line runs up the ridge to where seed trees still remain. Below 

 are cultivated fields. 



trees took place in 1899 and 1900. The 

 measurements made in December, 

 1904. showed an average per acre of 

 1334 trees over five feet in height, 65 

 trees under five feet or a total of 1,369. 

 Twenty-five trees were either sup- 

 pressed or already dead. The plot was 

 not uniformly stocked with young 

 growth on account of the blanks 

 caused by the first removal of seed 

 trees (see fig. <)). Contrary to Ameri- 



made. While some details could be 

 improved, yet how different is this con- 

 servative treatment from our own 

 slash and burn, which has devastated 

 such vast areas. The natural repro- 

 duction of almost all our pines, espe- 

 cially in the South, can be readily se- 

 cured by conservative lumbering and 

 tire protection and the future ought to 

 show equally good if not better re- 

 sults than obtained in British India. 



