38 
Indian Forest Records. 
[ VoL. I. 
for the purpose of distributing brood-lac to lessees. The rest of the 
area is leased to lessees who arrange for the collection of the lac with the 
local inhabitants. By the terms of the lease the lessees are bound to 
propagate lac on a specified number of trees. The number of trees 
varies according to the area leased. The lessee is bound to leave one-third 
of the lac on each tree for purposes of propagation. 
The income reahzed from lac in the Northern Circle is as follows : — 
Division. 
During current 
YEAR OR ANNUALLY. 
Remaeks. 
Reserves. 
i 
Unclassed 
forests. 
R 
Narsinghpur 
691 
Hoshangabad 
837 
Chhindwara 
695 
Damoh 
16,400 
From reserves and un- 
classed forests together. 
Seoni 
1,404 
For year ending June 
30tb, 1907. 
Saugor 
1,738 
Betul 
900 
Jubbulpiir 
586 
Average for last three 
years. 
Mandla 
1,223 
Total for Circle 
24,474 
1 
1 
^ In the Berar Circle lac is only found to any 
appreciable extent in the EUichpur and Wun 
Divisions. 
In the EUichpur Division lac is found throughout the Melghat forests, 
the area being, reserves 843 square miles and c. Ill class forests 656 
square miles. It is most plentiful in the eastern half of the Bairagarh 
Reserve. 
