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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 3I . 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 countingand 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.495,40 1 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 
ifes.170,619 on roads and bridges during the year and Ss.i 13,594 
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 Ms.22,2 16,747 and the expenditure 
Rs.12,166,747 giving a surplus of ©3.10,049,754, 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 ®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 
