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CHAPTER II.— SUBJECTS DEALT WITH. 



• Section I. — Aeeangbment of thb subjects. 



A working-plan is a forest regulation or prescription 

 deduced from facts ; and, in order that the prescriptions 

 may be intelligible it is necessary that the manner in which, 

 they have been arrived at should be explained and the facts 

 from which they have been deduced stated. The working- 

 plan report, therefore, naturally resolves itself into two 

 parts : the first, containing a summary of the facts on which 

 the proposals are based, and the second, a statement of these 

 proposals — the working scheme proper — accompanied by 

 whatever explanations are necessary in order to show why 

 they have been framed. The nature of the subjects treated 

 in each of these parts,, and the order in which they should, 

 as a rule, be arranged, are as follows : — 



I]\TRODUCTION. 



Part I.— Summary of facts on which the proposals are based 



Deeobipiion of the tbact dealt with. 



Name and situation. 



Confignration of the ground. 



TTnderlTing rock and soil. ' 



Climate, 



Agricnitural cugtoms and wants of the neighboniing population. 



Thb composition abd condition of the poeests. 



DistrihutioD nnd area. 



State of the boundaries. 



Legal position. 



Bights and concessions. 



CompoBition and condition of the crops. 



Injuries to which the crops are liable. 



Si STEM of manageufnt. 



Fast and present sjs^em of management. 

 'Special irorlis of improvement uudeitaken. 

 Pabt revenue and expendiluie. 



UtIIIZATION 01 THE PBODUCE. 



Marketable products ; requirements to be met (quantities produced in past years). 



Lines of export. 



Centres of consumption ; markets. 



Mode of extraction and its cost. 



Net value of eaoh class of produce. 



