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trial progress of the country, not only as regards 
agriculture, which is, of course, of paramount 
interest, but also as regards those manufactures 
for which only the raw material is at present ex- 
ported. With regard to the former, the yearly 
yield of five million tons of timber and fuel, of 
two hundred millions of bamboos, of half a million 
sterling of minor produce, as well as the grazing 
afforded to thirteen million cattle, shows what the 
local demand is at present; and to this may be 
added produce amounting in value to a quarter of 
a million sterling that is given freely away to the 
people. The forest, however, is not exploited even 
for the amount of produce it can supply at present, 
nor probably for a tithe of what it could supply if a 
larger demand justified the expense of more exten- 
sive working ; but that demand will come in time 
with the increase of population, and with the con- 
struction of railways and their feeder roads that 
provide cheap and sure carriage; for without such 
communications the moving of material bulky in 
proportion to its value must always be hindered by 
an expenditure incommensurate with the probable 
profit on its delivery. 
The object of State forestry in India is therefore 
to supply the requirements of its population in 
forest produéts, to protect the water-supply of the 
country, and to afford help in its industrial develop- 
ment. As is the case in European countries, the 
forest management should, as it always has, result 
in profit, but this profit should be subsidiary to the 
main objects in view; it should be a consequence 
of, and not a reason for, a forest policy. The 
