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forests. Finally, it must be remembered that kail usually occurs in places 
which are naturally favourable to its growth, and is not found in positions 
corresponding to that of deodar mixed with fir, when the inferior species is 
bound if left to itself to oust the more valuable one. Taking all these circum- 
stances into consideration, it is clear that there is no need to exercise so much 
caution in fixing the yield of kail, as there was in the case of deodar. At the 
same time it is necessary to remember that large numbers of the kail will dis- 
appear in improvement feltings and thinnings from the forests where they are 
mixed with deodar, and therefore, for the sake of safety, fewer trees should be 
felled at first than the enumeration figures would seem to indicate. The period 
occupied by a tree of 2 feet in diameter to become feet in diameter being 26 
years, it is believed that during those 26 years it will not be safe to fell more 
than all the first class trees plus one-fifth of those in the second class. The 
annual yield will, therefore, be ^^’^^^* =2,318. 
Turning next to the working plans prepared for the forests of the 
Example III. All Class I Old Central Circle of the North-Western 
trees 2 ( 1 «« 4 of Class II trees. Provinces and Oudh, and to the one re- 
lating to the Kumaun Forest Division,* it will be found that a 
larger proportion, namely one-quarter of the trees of the second 
class, is brought into the possibility. 
We have seen that the total contents of the three working circles are as 
follows, sound trees only being considered : — 
Sal sound. 
Sein (Teeminalia 
tomentosa) sound. 
1st class. 
2nd class. 
Ist class. 
2nd class. 
1. Sarkhet . 
2. Nandhaur 
3. Ealaunia 
.... 
4,084 
25,565 
15,451 
17,643 
83,250 
51,099 
5,094 
15,847 
19,.593 
8,350 
28,709 
24,245 
Total 
45,100 
151,992 
40,534 
61,304 
During the next 36 years we may remove all the 45,000 1st class sal and 
the 40,534 1st class sein : also a certain proportion of the 2nd class sal trees; 
now these are, at present, three times as numerous as the 1st class trees; 
everywhere under the benefits derived from fire-protection, trees of the younger 
classes are springing up in vast numbers; and the yield in the future will be 
very much greater than it is now. It is considered that one-quarter of the 
2nd class trees may be safely utilised during the ensuing 36 years. For 
many of these are already mature, and after taking this proportion there will, 
at the end of the period, still be standing in these working circles more than 
100,000 1st class sal trees, and therefore the surplus stock will be materially 
increased; and remembering also that in the forests of Class B, and in some of 
those of Class A, there is a large quantity of timber stored up for the future, 
the removal during the period of 36 years of 4 of the 2nd class sal trees is 
amply justified. 
* Working Plan for the Kumaun Forest Division, Central Circle, North-Western 
Provinces and Oudh, by F. Beadon-Byrant, I.F.S., 1893-1912. 
