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CHAPTER IV. SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS. 

 ARTICLE i. Cleanings, thinnings or other improvement fellings. 



39. None are prescribed beyond those already given in the felling pres- 

 criptions. 



ARTICLE 2. Regulation of grazing. 



40. Grazing will not be permitted except to cattle of forest villagers who 

 live inside the forest. 



ARTICLE 3. Works of artificial re-production. 



41. Self-sown seedlings are produced freely and, in places where teak are 

 now found, natural re-production requires no aid from artificial methods. There 

 are two areas, however, in which teak does not occur. 



42. Firstly, low-lying grass lands in which grass and frost have hitherto 

 effectually prevented both natural and artificial reproduction. It is not thought 

 probable that any efforts to introduce teak into such areas, until some class of 

 forest has established itself, are likely to produce any satisfactory results. Ex- 

 periments might be tried, however, to introduce some inferior species under which 

 if once established it might be possible to artificially introduce teak. 



43. Secondly, there are certain areas on the higher hill tops, and on the 

 slopes towards the east of the forest, in which teak are not found, without apparent 

 reason. In su,ch areas artificial reproduction of teak may be viewed more hope- 

 fully. In these areas there is often a dense forest of inferior species. Experi- 

 ments on the following lines might be tried. A line in the forest 8 feet wide 

 might be cleared and in the blank strip along the contour teak seed might be sown. 

 Such lines should be about 15 yards apart to prevent undue interference with 

 the leaf canopy. 



ARTICLE 4. Improvements common to "whole area. 



44. Protection from fire has hitherto been successful, and no great change 

 need be made in the present arrangement. It may be advisable to protect 

 certain of the cart roads when work is commenced. 



45. The idea of water carriage along the Sonbhadra may be definitely 

 abandoned and a good road should be constructed from Bori to Bagra instead. 

 This road is now under construction, but it will take some years to complete. 

 The construction of the Itarsi-Betul line now commenced may open up an 

 alternative route from Mohwavalaparo, a point on the road between Bagra and 

 Bori. In this connection paragraph 59 of the old plan is quoted which applies 

 even more to-day than the time at which it was written : 



From what has been said above in paragraph 33, it is evident that a more 

 or less puccaroad, with culverts to carry away the cross drainage, must be made, 

 if the road is not to be more than an annual makeshift, as at present. Morsover, 

 the approaches to the five or six of the largest streams would have to he carefully 

 levelled and metalled over several chain lengths and provided with strong and 

 resisting side drains to protect them from scouring. A pucca causeway would 

 have to be built across the Sonbhadra and Denwa Rivers. At the crossing the 

 latter river is nearly 300 feet wide, and an annually renewed wooden bridge sup- 

 ported on crate piers filled with boulders might prove cheaper than a pucca 

 causeway. Thus the due improvement of the road would involve a capital out- 

 lay of not less than Rs. 20,000 with an annual expenditure of Rs. 1,000 on 

 maintenance. At present it takes four days for a loaded cart to reach Sohagpur, 

 and the cost of transport per cubic foot of timber is 4 annas ; on the improved 

 road, the number of days would be reduced to 2^ and the cost of transport per 

 cubic foot to perhaps z\ annas (certainly not less), supposing that the quantity 

 of wood exported remains the same as at present." 



