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forests were amended, and in 1902 they were entirely revised in 

 order to adopt the working plans fitted to local conditions and 

 to improve the sylvan features. In other words, the working 

 plans consist of the utilization of forests and the method of 

 their regeneration. The principle was adopted, in the con- 

 sideration of the condition both interior and surrounding, to 

 maintain the capacity of forests and to introduce the measures 

 of adjustment and the improvement of forests so as to increase 

 the receipts to the maximum degree and to make supplies of 

 products to meet various demands. The results of the com- 

 pilation of the working plans of State forests for the space of 

 9 years up to 1907 since the commencement of the special ex- 

 ploitation of the State forests which was started in 1 899, show 

 that its progress was slow at first but owing to the improve- 

 ment of the Regulations and the modus operandi for the 

 compilation, the work made a steady progress. The working 

 plans were thus completed during this period as follows : 

 The number of working circles 236.. ..area. ...1,277,389 cho. 



It may be noted that the working plans were systemati- 

 cally started with forests which economically occupied import- 

 ant positions. Of the State forests covering a large area, there 

 were not few in which the working plans could not be com- 

 pleted as soon as they were expected, so that in 1904 Regula- 

 tions were made for the management of forests whose working 

 plans have not yet been compiled. Of these forests, according 

 to the general observation, the temporary working plans were 

 adopted so as to keep the balance in planting and felling of tr 



The above description relates to the State forests f 

 iui and we will publish here the general condition of the 



