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of weeding 600 acres consisting of both heavy and light work has 

 been found to be 8 annas an acre. " 



Sissu root and shoot cuttings must also be tended by loosening 

 the soil during the rains. The final soil loosening at the end of 

 the rains is perhaps the most important operation in the plains. 



Attention to all these details of management combined with 

 close personal supervision of the work and continued observation 

 as to the best methods to be employed for each and every species 

 will ensure success in artificial reproduction. In many cases 

 already in Burma, Bengal, Nilambur, the irrigated plantations 

 of the Punjab, the afforestation work in the United Provinces 

 and in several hill divisions, standard methods have been adopted 

 on which it would be difficult to improve. Still in other places 

 much remains to be done to bring this branch of our work up to 

 the necessary standard of efficiency. With the increasing inten- 

 sity of management of the sal forests of the United Provinces, 

 much more artificial reproduction will have to be undertaken for 

 the completion of areas under regeneration, but with the know- 

 ledge already obtained this development of our work need give no 

 -xjause for anxiety. 



" TBOWSCOED." 



