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person is, ia fact, the paly means by wMch reliable results 

 can be secured. 



It is usually the custom to blaze with an axe the trees 

 measured. This, however, for obvious reasons, should not 

 be done so as to injure the stems in the raaaner usual with 

 native workmen. Where water is available, the trees may 

 be marked with whitewash, made with rice water so as to 

 render it adherent ; but ordinarily a light blaze on the bark 

 of each tree will suflS.ce, if necessary, a barkblazar being 

 used for the purpose. 



6. Recording the results of enumerations,— For recording the 

 results of the enumerations, various forms of field-books have 

 been suggested. The following is a saoaple of a convenient 

 form of field-book, in which the classes include a range of 

 girths and the forest is very irregular : — 



Name of Bange. 

 Name of Blocks 



Date_ 



Name of Compartments 



Name of Becorder_ 



''*-*As the species and girth of each tree or its corresponding 

 colour oft the callipers is called, a stroke is made in the 

 space in the column allotted to it. The first four strokes are 

 drawn upright, the fifth one obliquely across them. Each 

 group of strokes thus represents five trees of the species and 

 girth against which it is drawn. After the day's work is 

 over, the total number of trees in each girth-class is totalled 

 up. 



