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(e.g. the eastern side of area B), damage from drought is severe and 
that the best results are obtained in areas (C) which get side-shade both 
in the morning and afternoon, together with full sunlight at mid-day. 
In these forests, therefore, the modified Group-cwm-Strip system, with 
strips running north-south, appears to be the best. In another locality 
in which damage from frost or drought is not severe in the central por¬ 
tions of areas (B), but in which the growth on the western side of these 
areas is obviously the best, a system of continuous strip fellings, com¬ 
mencing on the east and proceeding steadily through the forest towards 
the west, would be indicated as most suitable. 
Similar experimental fellings should also be made in areas where 
natural seedlings are already on the ground but which are not yet fully 
established, in order to test the effect of such fellings in accelerating the 
development and establishment of such seedlings. Two or three year’s 
careful work on these lines should clearly indicate the most suitable 
method or combination of methods for any particular forest, under the 
local conditions of climate, labour supply, nature and vigour of weed- 
growth, etc. 
It would show, for instance, how far scarcity of labour renders it 
necessary to avoid hoeing and artificial sowing and to depend on the 
slower method of obtaining natural seedlings under shade by burning, 
how far it is advisable or possible to reduce weeding operations by 
reducing the size of the clearings, in what way fellings should best be 
made to accelerate the establishment of seedlings which have started 
growth under shade, and what method of artificial sowing is most suit¬ 
able in areas where natural seedlings are not obtained in a reasonable 
time. 
CHAPTER IV. 
General Summary of Results obtained. 
57. The present oecological study of the factors influencing the 
development of sal seedlings, which was commenced in 1909, was under¬ 
taken with the object of discovering a method of speeding up the growth 
of sal seedlings and of quickly regenerating the sal forests of northern 
India. The general lines on which this work has been carried out have 
been indicated in Chapter I above (see para 1) and the results which 
have been obtained up to date are now summarized below. Some 
of these results have already been published in previous papers but, 
for the sake of completeness and to facilitate reference, they have been 
included in the following general summary :— 
(1) Sal seed is particularly liable to damage from drought. Such 
damage can be diminished by protecting it from sun and 
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