Part IV.j Glasson : Artificial Regeneration of Sal. $ 
The following quotation may be made from the latter. 
“ In the wet typ£, established saplings or seedlings do not exist al¬ 
though, as before, yearling seedlings are of fairly common 
occurrence, especially on cleared lines and cart tracks. There is, 
unfortunately, every indication that the wet type is encroaching 
on the dry, owing, presumably, to successful fire protection. In 
fact it would appear that, when the present crop of sal has been 
exhausted, there will be no more to take its place. The first 
thing that strikes a forester returning after several years is 
the remarkable increase in evergreen undergrowth and the almost 
complete absence of sal between the seedling and pole stages 
under healthy seed-bearers.” 
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“ It was hoped and expected that by eliminating fires and grass 
there would be no difficulty in obtaining and maintaining 
perfect sal forest; unfortunately an entirely new and unforeseen 
condition arose in the shape of evergreen undergrowth producing 
a hitherto non-existent type of forest. The phenomenal in¬ 
crease in the growth of climbers resulting from the exclusion 
of fires was also not anticipated.” 
Natural regeneration in the fire-protected areas was practically 
non-existent. Conditions to-day are substantially the same as described 
in the above article; ground fires have been put through some of the 
sal forest with beneficial effect to the existing crop but without inducing 
regeneration and in many places we are exploiting the trees which came 
in after fire protection was established. 
II. Experiments in artificial regeneration. 
3. Prior to 1910 some experiments had been made in artificial rege¬ 
neration of sal with the object, generally, of introducing sal where it 
was not formerly found, in grass lands and abandoned village sites. The 
records of such sowings are meagre and the only successful plantation 
now traceable is the one in North Muraghat made in 1896, 1897 and 
1899. This sowing was made on good, fairly well drained land the modus 
operandi being as follows. Grass land was cultivated and sal seeds put 
in close together in lines 6' apart among the first crop. It was intended 
that the land between the lines should be cultivated with crops in the 
2nd year, but the villagers declined to do this. The sowing was there¬ 
fore only cleaned and cleanings appear to have ceased in 1899. For the 
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