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summary of rights to produce ; privileges or other conceasions 

 granted at the will [and pleasure of Government ; adequacy 

 of the forest resources to provide for the exercise of re- 

 corded rights or of admitted privileges ; actual effect, of such 

 exercise upon the crops. 



General description of the forest crop.— Composition and con- 

 dition of the crop ; types of forest and areas occupied by 

 each ; origfn of the crop ; the principal species and their 

 relative proportion and importance, habitat, mode of repro- 

 duction, size attained and rate of growth ; density of the 

 crop, blanks, and glades ; state of the reproduction ; principal 

 products yielded ; grass and olber minor products, etc. 



Injuries to which the forests are liable — Causes of injurv ; 

 fire&, grazing, offences of common occurrence ; the best means 

 of regulating or combating the causes of injury. 



FUTURE SYLVICULTUEAL TREATMENT. 



Of all the subjects to he considered that which it is de- 

 sirable to bear constantly in mind when passing from crop to 

 crop is the method of treatment which will probably be 

 found most suitable. For a correct general apprehension in 

 this respect, acquired sufficiently early in the enquiry, may 

 show, for instance, that the existing condition of the forest 

 is such that its exploitation should, for the present, be very 

 simply regulated, say by area -and by a few short cultural 

 rules only. Owing to the neglect of this precaution, work, 

 such as the detailed enumeration of stock, which has subse- 

 quently proved wholly unnecessary for the proper attain- 

 ment of the object in view, has sometimes been carried out 

 in India, thus delaying the completion of the plan while 

 rendering it needlessly lengthy, complicated and costly. 



SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT. 



Systems of management.— Past systems of management ; 

 their defects ; changes introduced and their results ; manage- 

 ment in force and its results ; regulation of fires, grazing, 

 rights, etc. 



Works of improvement undertaken.— Nature of works ; their 

 object; results attained. 



