The following felling prescriptions are given for guidance : 



(1) Inferior material interfering with superior should be felled, girdled 



or lopped. By inferior material is meant inferior by reason of 

 its species or its growth. This prescription must be intelligently 

 applied and the operator must use his judgment when dealing 

 with a well grown tree of inferior species suppressing a badly 

 grown tree of superior species. In such a case it might well be 

 preferable not to remove the dominant tree. The improvement 

 of the forest as a whole must be looked to. In this connection it 

 should also be borne in mind that it is of the utmost importance 

 not to unduly interfere with the leaf canopy, but groups of poles 

 which are interfering with each other may be thinned out. 



(2) No sound teak tree of less than 6 feet in girth may be cut. Sound 



teak trees of 6 feet in girth or over may be felled provided they are 

 not required for sylvicultural reasons, i. c., seed or shelter. 



(3) Any dead tree of any species may be cut if marketable. Similarly any 



teak or other tree not capable of living to the end of the felling 

 period may be cut. If any doubt exists regarding this prescription 

 it is advisable to give the tree the benefit of the doubt. 



(4) All climbers should be cut. The effect of this operation should be 



carefully watched on the sides of the higher hills where no teak are 

 found, it is probable that climbers in such places are important 

 as a soil protection and this consideration may outweigh the 

 danger of their spreading down to teak-bearing areas. 



(5) Bamboos interfering with teak may be cut. It will be found, however, 



that the teak can as a rule find its way through the bamboos from 

 which species much danger need not be feared. 



(6) No one of less standing than a trained Ranger shall be permitted to 



carry out markings and it is absolutely necessary that the Forest 

 Divisional Officer himself shall exercise a strict supervision over 

 the work. 



(7) 



^ _; scries will be vpen to theN^utting of bamb 



years^eginning with the Jholi FellingSeries. 



in alternate 



37. At the end of the 10 years the crop will possibly be sufficiently regular 

 to admit of selection fellings, but the small number of large girth classes will 

 probably make it advisable to treat the forest to another period of improvement 

 fellings. 



ARTICLE 5. Tabular statement of Fellings to be made. 



38. The following table shows the areas of the annual coupes and the years 

 in which they shall be worked : 



