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be profitably practised also makes a difference in 

 the amount of superintendence which it necessi- 

 tates. While an intensively managed farm of 250 

 acres would occupy a superintendent fully, a hun- 

 dred times such acreage in forest may be placed 

 under one manager to execute the working plans if, 

 according to location and conditions, he is assisted 

 by a number of guards. 



The protection of the property, indeed, requires 

 under circumstances the comparatively largest at- 

 tention. In German forest administrations, one 

 guard is employed for every 500 to 2000 acres, 

 exercising mainly police functions, which the dense 

 indigent population, prone to stealing and trespass 

 of various kinds, necessitates. 



In India,^ with a forest area under more or less 

 intensive management of 75,000,000 acres, of which 

 about two-thirds are- reserved, the rest only pro- 

 tected — after various reorganizations since 1864 

 when the first administration was organized, — the 

 controlling staff consists of i inspector general, 

 19 conservators, 117 deputy conservators, 63 

 assistant conservators, and 112 provincial con- 

 servators, or all together 312 officers, double the 

 number employed in 1885 ; the executive and pro- 

 tective service is satisfied with 1663 rangers and 

 foresters and 8533 guards; all together 10,508 



1 These figures refer to conditions in the year 1900, and are taken 

 from the excellent book, "Forestry in India," by B. Ribbentrop, 

 Inspector General. 



