200 PRACTICAL FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



expenditure by Es. 4,000 with an initial expenditure of Ks. 10,000 

 for a 50 mile installation. It is also of great value in every branch 

 of forest work, e.g., reducing petty correspondence. The installa- 

 tion in North Kheri was erected and is run departmentally 

 with very small amount of professional assistance. Where suit- 

 able schemes can be developed, every effort should be made to 

 obtain sanction for the capital expenditure. 



Where telephones are not available, where the country is 

 suitable for bicycles, a bicycle patrol is of much more value than a 

 larger number of ordinary fire watchers. 



The system of having watchers at look-out points should be 

 developed, and special steel-look out towers may be given a trial. 



(2) The organization for immediate concentration of labour to 

 fight the flames. In forests far from villages, gangs of labour 

 required for attending general works in the forest should as far as 

 possible be employed throughout the hot weather. In such cases 

 the cost should be charged to the works concerned. Divisional 

 Forest Officers should consider whether in any case the employ- 

 ment of a gang is mainly for fire protection when the other work 

 which the gang can carry out is not an essential part of the work 

 of the division. In such cases the cost of the gang should be 

 charged to fire protection. 



The South Kheri division is quoted as an instance where such 

 a gang mainly for fire protection has been found justifiable. 



There can be no special organization for summoning assistance 

 from villages, but in order to render this assistance as little 

 unpopular as possible, the following resolutions of a meeting of 

 Conservators on the 16th August, 1921, on the subject of payment 

 of assistance will be adopted : 



" The policy to be followed should be to pay the ordinary 

 day's wage if demanded. Such day's wage to be decided for each 

 Range by the Divisional Forest Officer. Any rightholder bargain- 

 ing, or refusing to come to assist in putting out a fire without 



