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To begin with areas, we find that there are 231,701 square miles 

 of forest or a proportion of 24% of the whole area, of which 91,567 

 square miles consist of reserved or leased forests; 9,865 protected, 

 and 131,269 unclassed. 



That is to say that in India reserved forests occupy an area 

 equal to about 3! times the whole area of the Federated Malay 

 States. 



Of this area 63,000 square miles have been surveyed on a scale 

 of not less than 4 inches to the mile, all interior details being shewn 

 on the plans such as contours and streams, however small. The 

 object of this detailed survey is to enable the Department to draw 

 up working plans for the systematic working of the forests on a 

 scientific basis. Without such survey such plans would be impos- 

 sible. Thirty-three thousand six hundred and eighty square miles 

 have now been brought under regular plans, under which provision 

 is made for the quantity of timber, etc., to be removed for many 

 years to come, the yield having been arrived at by exhaustive and 

 laborious work in counting and classifying the trees in such reserves 

 and by ascertaining their rate of growth. 



We find that the length of artificially demarcated boundaries of 

 reserves is 121,501 miles. 



As regards the important question of forest survey we find that 

 Rs.495,401 was spent during the year on this work and there is 

 a large Department called the Forest Survey Department, at work 

 every year. They form a branch of the survey of India, under the 

 general direction of the Surveyor-General. The Department spent 

 fis.170,619 on roads and bridges during the year and Ss. 113,594 

 on repairs to the same. 



Turning to the output we find that 57 millions cubic feet of 

 timber were extracted from the forests during the year, and 117 

 million cubic feet of fuel, 184 million bamboos. 



The gross revenue was fe.22, 2 16,747 and the expenditure 

 Ss. 12, 166,747 giving a surplus of &s. 10,049,754, the proportion of 

 expenditure to gross revenue being 55 per cent., the lowest per- 

 centage in the history of Indian forest management and the highest 

 revenue. This works out at B>s. 95 gross revenue per square mile. 



There were 8 imperial and 14 provincial forest officers engaged in 

 bringing the forests of native States, British Colonies and foreign 

 countries under regular systematic management, and the Inspector 

 General says that the increasing demand for professionally trained 

 forest officers seems to show how quickly the Governments of Native 

 States are realizing the benefits that are likely to accrue from the 

 introduction of sound methods of control and management. 



Under experiments we find that Hevea Braziliensis has proved 

 unsuited to the climate of Bengal. In Burma the rubber plantation 

 extends over an area of 1,749 acres. The species under observation 

 are Hevea Braziliensis, Castilloa elastica, Funtumia elastica and 

 Mimusops balata, Dichopsis gutta (Taban) Willoughbia firma and 



