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value will also be lost unless a careful record is kept of the 

 works carried out and of the financial results secured. A sound 

 system of control is therefore necessary ; but in order that 

 the control may be effective it should be of a very simple 

 nature requiring only a few entries, once a year or so, in the 

 records regarding each forest or working-circle. For the 

 same reason the control should be of such a general nature 

 that an uniform kind of record can be used for all forests 

 and for all systems of working. 



It is nnfortunate that the truth of these propositions has not heen altogether 

 realised in India. The control forms first introdnced were impracticable ; hecause tlie 

 anticipated outturn of each felling was entered as a provision of the plan- It is not • 

 ton much to say that the attempt thus made to keep up the control forms gave more 

 trouble than the iaformation recorded was worth. 



Nature of control required.— The facts to be recorded for 

 purposes of control may be classed as follows under three 

 distinct heads: — 



(1) The work done or fellings made as compared with 



the provisions of the plan. 



(2) The gross " yield " and the " outturn." 



(3) Financial results. 



Controlling the provisions of the plan. —The control can be 

 effected in a very simple manner. The plan amounts (a) to 

 the prescription of certain sylvicultural rules to be applied 

 over definite areas, with the addition, in some cases, of a 

 limitation as regards the quantity of material to be felled ; 

 and (6) to the prescription of certain works of improvement. 

 All that it is necessary to record and to control can, there- 

 fore, be brought under the following headings :— 



(a) Year or period of operation prescribed. 



(6) Locality to be exploited or in which the pres- 

 cribed work is to be carried out. 



(c) Nature of felling or other cultural operation to 

 be made or of work of improvement to be 

 undertaken. 



(cT) Quantity of material or number of acres to be 

 exploited, or expenditure to be incurred on a 

 prescribed work. 



The work done, in accordance with the plan or other, 

 wise, can therefore be checked from a record such as the 



