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Revenue and expenditure.— K summary of the revenue 

 and expenditure for the preceding 10 years to be compUed, 

 if the information is available, for each class of forest. 



{v) Utilization of products. 



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

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

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

 grantees ; value of products consumea. 



Extraction of the produce. — Export roads or rivers lead- 

 ing 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 

 centres 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. 



{vi) Miscellaneous facts. 



The forest sfa^.— -Strength of stafE and adequacy. 



Labour supply. — Abundance or reverse of the labour 

 supply ; seasons when available ; cost of labour. 



The woi'kiug-plans officer will find it conreDient to record the informaUoa collect- 

 ed on all the above poiuts from day to day in a bound book, witli a few blank pages 

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

 mnst be obtained from the existing forest records relating to previoas management. 

 The working-plans officer should go oa the ground fully supplied with this inform- 

 ation. 



3. Maps.— The map used in preparing the working- pi an 

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

 cation of the limits of each block, compartment (where 

 compartments have been formed) and coupe. A scale of 

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

 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 enlargement 

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

 as accurate as any description of the crop that can be made, 

 [n such a case it is not a map, in the ordinary sense, 

 but a picture that is wanted. The map used should ehow^ 



