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value is pretty generally known, but the relation 

 between supply and demand is as yet an unknown 

 quantity, and, with a profit on current transactions, 

 the aim should be the increase of those transactions 

 up to the capabilities of the forests. In the pur- 

 suit of this aim the demand may not keep pace 

 with the supply, but this must not be accepted as 

 the absolute limit of demand, but only as the 

 limit of demand at a given price ; if costs of tran- 

 sport can be lowered, the demand is capable of 

 unknown expansion. 



There are, unfortunately, some forest Divisions 

 in which, if the accounts be subjected to close 

 criticism, it will be found that the net revenue 

 does not exceed the revenue from minor produce ; 

 in other words, the forests are being denuded of 

 their best timber for no good end ; it would be as 

 well to give it away free on the spot, as to sell it 

 at a distant market at a price not exceeding costs. 

 Such a state of things must be most unsatisfactory 

 to the officer in charge, and should tempt him to 

 bend his best efforts to remedy it. 



Indian forest-work is beset with numerous 

 difficulties, but it is these very difficulties which 

 the able and enterprising forest officers of to-day 

 have to thank for rare opportunities of distin- 

 guishing themselves. The management of our 

 forests affords scope for the highest administra- 



