EXAMPLE OP COMPABTMENT HISTORY. 



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Compart- 

 ment. 



Description of the growing stock. 



Quality class. 



1, 2, 3, 4 , 



The ravine country covars two-thirds of tho block and con- 

 tains excellent sal forest of the hill type. The sal is generally 

 of three <oot and four foot girth classes, but there are many 

 mature trees. The ridges flre generally poor and hold only a 

 miscellaneous stock of bel, amaltas, dhauri. bhilawa, etc. The 

 quality of sal in the lower parts of the ravines is first class and 

 very good height growth is attained. Regeneration in the 

 ravines is excellent but is being kept back for lack of cleanings. 

 On the ridges seedlings are very scarce A fairly pure and dense 

 sal forest occupies the flats to the north. The trampling of the 

 cattle hag however so hardened and impoverished the soil 

 that reproduction is totally absent while many trees are stag- 

 beaded. The sal is generally of the three foot and four loot 

 girth classes. Along the northern boundary there is a wider 

 strip of dense evenaijed sal of the two foot and three foot 

 girth classes. Isolated areas of a red ferruginous soil occur 

 which will not grow tal or any valuable species. In the 

 extreme north-west of the block the D.ibka river bed holds 

 an open forest of khair and miscallaneous species. 



Miscellaneous notes regarding management. 



Year. 



