l(»n THE SYLVIOT'LTT-RAT. SYSTEMS. 



lieinr; liarvested in lato summer of llie first year, and the 

 latter in tlie summer of tlie seconfl year. 



h. Ui'jli Fiiirsl idiiihiiiril irifli llir ('ill Ural iaii tif Firlil ('nijis. 



After each cuttinc,' over of a high forest tlie soil is used for one 

 or more years for the growth of field crops. The young forest 

 crop is estahlished, either at once, or after the growth of 

 cereals has ceased, by sowing or planting in lines, or by 

 sowing broadcast with the last crop of cereals. In some cases 

 the soil is burned over after the clearing of the forest crop, as 

 described in the case of coppice. 



In addition to buckwheat and rj'e, frequently oats, potatoes, 

 etc., are grown. 



r. Kfcii of the Sf/slnii o/i I/ip Fiiclors of Ihc Lociililji. 



The two variations of the system are subject to the ordinary 

 disadvantages of the clear cutting system, and in addition the 

 cultivation of field crops may exhaust the soil. Hence, they 

 are only permissible where they are an absolute necessity, or 

 on soil which can bear the strain of clear cutting and of the 

 growing of field crops without becoming exhausted. Where a 

 crop of spruce or Scotch pine is to be immediately followed by 

 a new crop of the same species, the burning followed bj' the 

 cultivation of a field crop can be recommended, wherever 

 danger from insects is to be feared, the latter being destroyed 

 or driven away by the burning. 



The system is still extensively practised in India under a 

 variety of names, as j booming, dhya, launri, taungya cultiva- 

 tion, etc. There the whole of the old crop of wood is generally 

 burned, so as to obtain as large a quantity of ashes as possible. 

 Of late years the practice has been taken advantage of in 

 Burma to produce young teak woods. The clearings are made 

 in comparatively' useless forest, the cultivators undertaking to 

 sow or plant teak between their field crops, for which they are 

 paid at an agreed rate at the end of tlie first, second, or tliird 

 year. 



