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compartments to be heavy tapped. Heavy tapping will be only carried out in those 

 areas to be felled for firewood within the next 5 years and only those trees in them will 

 be heavy tapped that are to come out at the felling, the remaining trees in the coupe 

 being hght tapped. 



NUMBER OF POTS PER TREE 



3. Light tapping. — One pot for trees between 3| feet and 4J feet in girth. 



Two pots for trees between 4^ feet and 7 feet in girth. 

 Three pots for trees over 7 feet in girth. 



Heavy tapping. — One pot for every foot in girth of bark. 



METHOD OF TAPPING: HANGING OF THE POTS 



4. Having arranged for pots, tools and lips, the pots will be hung on the trees as 

 follows: Choose places for the pots at the base of the tree, taking care that when two 

 or more pots are prescribed that they are equidistant from each other, then cut a channel 

 4 inches wide by 1 inch deep and about 6 inches long at the base, so as to allow a free 

 hang to the top, place the lip (a piece of thin iron sheet 5 inches by 1^ inches) in a 

 curved incision (made by a special chisel with that curve), care being taken that the 

 lip slopes downward from the tree and underneath toward a side drive in a nail on to 

 which the pot will be himg. 



The channel when first cut should be 4 inches to 6 inches long above the hp. For 

 the cutting of a channel an ordinary sharp adze is required. When commencing work 

 for the year on trees already tapped, the old hp will be extracted and inserted at the 

 head of the previous year's channel, the pot being hung below it as before. 



FRESHENING 



5. For this a very sharp adze (Basula) is required. As the flow ceases, which, accord- 

 ing to the time of year, may be after one, two or three weeks, a point on which the 

 range officer and beat guards must be particularly careful, the channel will require 

 freshening at the top. This is done by the removal of a thin shaving not more than 2§ 

 inches of the vertical length of the tree. The flow has ceased because of the clogging 

 of the outlet of the resin ducts, and all that is necessary is to remove those clogged and 

 to open out other ducts — the ducts more or less ramifying through some 2 inches or so 

 of outer wood in a vigorous first-class tree. 



No hard-and-fast rule can be fixed as to the length of the channel to be cut each 

 year, as this depends on the extent of the freshening necessary and on the tree itself as a 

 resin-producer. A maximum of 15 inches, however, is fixed; but the less the better, 

 as the longer the use of the ladder is postponed the more quickly can work be done. 



The cutting of the bark on the sides of the channel is not allowed; simply remove 

 the old pieces of loose bark by hand and put a piece of bark over the pot itself to pre- 

 vent foreign matter falling into the resin. 



COLLECTION 



6. As the pots become full they must be emptied of their resin. Here again no fixed 

 period can be fixed, but during the season of greatest flow once every fifteen days is 

 necessary, but otherwise not less than once a month. As a rule, the resin should not be 

 allowed to reach within ^ inch of the nail hole or the top of the pot, whichever is lowest. 



The collection will be made by means of wooden spoons, the resin being put into 

 kerosene oil tins fixed up with a handle, which will be emptied into other tins at con- 

 venient centers for transport to Bhowali. 



7. Tapping will go on for five successive years between about March 15 and Novem- 

 ber 15, according to season and then a rest of 10 years, so that during 14 years the 

 4-inch channel should be closed over by callous formed on the sides. 



