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Revemie and expenditure — A summary of the revenue and 

 expenditure for the preceding 10 years to be compiled, if 

 the information is available, for each class of forest. 



UTILISATION OF PRODUCTS. 



Marketable products.— Yield of timber, fuel, minor pro- 

 duce, etc. ; quantities consumed in past years in Govern- 

 ment works, by purchasers, by right-holders and by free 

 grantees ; value of products consumed. 



Extraction of the produce.— Export roads or rivers leading 

 from forests to centres of consumption ; their adequacy and 

 state of repair ; manner and cost of extraction; road and 

 river improvements required. 



Markets — Distance, size and importance of principal cen- 

 tres of consumption ; produce consumed at each centre and 

 ruling prices obtained. 



Net value of produce — Net value in the forest of each 

 class of produce. 



MISCELLANEOUS FACTS. 



The forest staff.— Strength of staff and its adequacy. 

 Labour supply. — Abundance or reverse of the labour sup- 

 ply ; seasons when available ; cost of labour. 



The working.plans officer will find-it convenient to record the information collected 

 on all the ahove points from day to day in a bound book, with a few blank pages 

 nnder each heading. It will be seen that a good deal of the information required 

 must be obtained from the exieting forest records relating to previous management. 

 The working-plans officer should go on the ground fully supplied wiih this inform- 

 ation. 



Maps. — The map used in preparing the working-plan 

 should be on a sufficiently large scale for the distinct indi- 

 cation of the limits of each block (or compartment where 

 compartments have been formed) and coupe (fig. iv). A 

 scale of 4 inches to 1 mile, in which an area of 40 acres 

 covers one square inch of the map, is the largest scale 

 generally required in India. Where a map on a larger scale 

 is necessary, in order for instance to delineate graphically 

 the situation, composition and condition of a crop which is 

 to be subjected to special cultural treatment, an enlarge- 

 ment of the 4-inch map will be sufficiently accurate — quite as 



