CHAPTER XIII 
CONCLUSION 
Tue forests of India, vast as they are, will have but 
little effect in solving the difficulty that is already 
beginning to be felt in supplying the demand for 
timber in the British Isles, because they have first 
to meet the demands of a yet vaster population. 
They will continue to yield teak and ornamental 
woods, because India cannot yet fully utilize these 
expensive preducts; and there will be an increasing 
supply of lac, tanning material, and other forest 
products, available for export, as the exploitation of 
the forests continues to develop. There may also 
spring up in the future other industries of some 
magnitude, such as the manufacture of paper pulp 
and tannin extracts, but this will probably not take 
place until the prices of these commodities rise ; for 
it is impossible at present to compete against the 
advantages possessed by factories in other countries 
which are located in the midst of dense coniferous 
forests, or in virgin mangrove swamps, that are both 
treated on the system of clear felling, often without 
any provision for a marketable regrowth, when in 
India much larger areas would have to be worked 
over in the search for material of suitable quality, 
and arrangements made for effective natural repro- 
duction. 
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