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Only such jungle as will decay quickly should be used. Illarni 

 (agg?ratum sp.) forms an excellent mulch and is plentiful. Mulch- 

 ing is particularly advisable on dry ridges into which the roots 

 have not penetrated to any great depth so that the trees are likely 

 to die off through lack of moisture in the dry weather. 



:< The result of this tending is that most of the small trees 

 go away with a straight leader and form symmetrical trees such as 

 are not always seen in plantations set out with one or two years 

 old seedlings. " 



Troup in his Silviculture of Indian Trees gives instance after 

 instance of parallel sowings, weeded and unweeded, where the 

 former lines succeeded and the latter failed altogether. The 

 ending of sal sowings in Gorakhpur is described as follows : 



" During the rains weeding and working the soil is done gener- 

 ally three times in all. Weeding is absolutely necessary or the 

 young seedlings get completely smothered in grass and weeds.. 

 Working the soil need not be done with the first two weedings 

 but should be done with the third and final weeding which 

 generally takes place in September. Very good results have been 

 obtained where only weeding and no special working of the soil 

 has been done, as the weeding in itself necessitates some working: 

 of the soil. If no weeding is done the sowing is generally a 

 failure. After this tending during the rains it is generally not 

 necessary to do anything more until the next monsoon, provided 

 the work and specially the third weeding in September has been 

 properly done. The cost of this tending during the first year is 

 about Rs. 12 per acre of actual area worked over. " 



Trevor insists on the importance of weeding coniferous sow- 

 ings in Kulu : " It is absolutely essential that direct sowings 

 be properly weeded. Where heavy herbaceous undergrowth is pre- 

 sent weeding should commence on 1st June, and be repeated a, 

 second time during August. In other places where the under- 

 growth is not aggressive one weeding in August will be sufficient- 

 Very heavy weedings cost up to Be. 1 per acre. The average cost 



