( 100A ) 



of standards of good quality timber trees (especially shisham) on 

 a 40-year rotation. The standards will be so far apart as not to 

 interfere with the fodder orop, the extreme importance of which 

 is fully realised, and in these ravine lands the very best and maxi- 

 mum yield of fodder is obtained under a crop of babul trees. 



It is assumed throughout that the area to be reclaimed will be 

 free of rights. But the revenue anticipated from fuel, fodder and 

 grazing has been put on a very low basis, so that the local inhabi- 

 tants may benefit, since the principal object of these plantations is 

 the improvement of agricultural conditions in these precarious 

 tracts. The revenue expected from timber and babul is conserva- 

 tive and not optimistic. 



Each year 1 acre is afforested ; when 5 years old, the first thinning 

 will be made, and 320 plants at 1 pice each obtained Bs. 5. When 

 10 years old, the second thinning will be made and 160 plants at 

 1 anna each obtained Es. 10. When 15 years old the third thinning 

 will be made, and 48 plants at 3 annas each obtained Es. 9. In 

 the 20th year a final felling of the coppice will be made, giving 100 

 trees per acre. In these calculations, these 100 babuls have been 

 calculated both at Jtie. 1 and 8 annas each nett. (The sale value in 

 Cawnpore is about Es. 2-8-0 each.) This completes the first 

 rotation of the coppice, and there are left 15 timber trees as 

 standards. Thus at the end of the 20th year there will be 20 acres 

 in a series of age gradations with the coppice 19, and the 

 standards 1 20 years old. 



In the second, 20 years (i.e., 21st to 40th year), there will be a 

 final coppice felling on 1 acre each year, and thinnings as above. 

 In the 40th year will be in addition a final felling of standards 

 1 acre, giving 15 trees at Es. 20 each. (1 tree gives 20 cubic feet 

 in the log at Ee. 1 per cubic feet.) In the third, 20 years (i.e., 41st 

 to 60th year), the coppice revenue will be as above, and there will 

 be a final felling of standards over 1 acre each year. The annual 

 revenue from fodder and grass is calculated as follows : 



Fodder grass. Valued at 2 annas per maund on one-quarter of 

 the crop or 4 annas per acre in normal years. And 2 annas per 

 maund on the full crop or Ee. 1 per acre every fifth year, when 

 fodder scarcity may be expected. 



Grazing. Four annas per acre per annum for four-fifths of the 

 area (i.e., 16 acres open out of 20), each area being closed until ib is 

 4 years old). 



Areas will be treated as follows : 



Entirely closed for four months (June September). , 



Open to grass-cutting for four months (October January). 



