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diameter covering a sufficiently large area may be retained if this 

 is considered desirable. 



' The secondary fellings should in most cases be made when 

 the young crop is from 4 to 6 feet high, as the damage done is 

 then less than when the regeneration is smaller. 



" The maintenance of the mixture in mixed woods is prescribed. 

 Pure deodar may remain as such, and pure kail at suitable elevations 

 should be regenerated with a mixture of kail and deodar ; in all 

 cases a good proportion of deodar is to ba introduced into the new 

 crop in all suitable situations, but money is not to be wasted on 

 planting trees in places where nature never intended them to grow. 



" The proper selection of the mother trees is a matter which of 

 course will receive the greatest attention. As already mentioned 

 in the case of chir, the old large crowned trees should invariably 

 be selected, and not the younger conical crowned immature trees 

 which do not produce sufficient seed. In the case of other species 

 this consideration is not of such vital importance but good healthy 

 large crowned trees should be selected and not trees with long 

 stems and attenuated crowns, which will promptly be blown down. 

 Compared to the reduction of seed the consideration of the 

 increment to be put on by the mother trees during the time they 

 stand in the regeneration area is a matter of secondary importance ; 

 and it should be remembered that medium-sized trees will do less 

 harm when subsequently felled than trees of enormous size. These 

 latter should generally come out in the seeding felling." 



" The areas selected for periodic block I already carry more or 

 Ranikhet less established regeneration and the markings must accordingly 

 or iny & - m & ^ regularizing and completing this, and freeing it from 

 overhead cover to allow it to grow up as uniformly as possible. 

 The most difficult question is that of fire insurance, but it is 

 considered that in view of that fact that all the mother trees will 

 carry several resin channels the majority will ba killed by a fire 

 sufficiently severe to kill the regeneration, and consequently 



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