TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 



1. History of the Forest Department . ... . 1 



2. Area, Classes and Types of Forests . ... 



3. Forest Policy and Legal Control . . / 5 



4. Administration and Staff '. '. * 



5. Research . >. . . . . . . . 11 



'6. Forest Organization and Exploitation . .. . . 12 



7. Forest Products . . . . . , . * ,,. 18 



8. Forest Industries . . . . . .i , 41 



9. Financial Results ... . . . ... 62 



10. Future Prospects and Requirements . . ^ 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



1. The Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun . .. . Frontispiece 



2. Himalayan wet slide for the export of sleepers . 



3. Dragging teak timber in the forests of Burma . > 



4. The chos of Hoshiarpur. Erosion ... . 16 



5. Teak plantation, Nilambur . . . . ... 20 



6. Valuable sal forest killed by abnormal drought . . 26 



7. Sal forest of good quality, Bengal ..... 



8. Forest steam tramway, Goalpara .....> 36 



9. Blue gum plantation in the frilgiris . . . i. . 40 



10. Pole crop of chir pine . > ; . 46 



11. Natural regeneration of chir pine forest . to . . 5C 



12. Young teak taungya plantation, Burma . > > .. 56 



13. Deodar forest .,.... 62 



