ARTOCARPUS HIRSUTA SUCCESSFULLY INTRODUCED AS AN UNDERWOOD IN A

TEAK PLANTATION. ARTOCARPUS, 18 YEARS. TEAK, 57 YEARS. THE TEAK IS
BEING CLEANED OF EPICORMIC BRANCHES. MADRAS PRESIDENCY
J. M. Sweet, photo.

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REGENERATION OF MAHOGANY BY IN ROADSIDE NILAMBUR. THE TREE PANNENGODE BLOCK, IS A SHADE BEARER AND MAY, AS IN CASE OF HOPE.1, BE USEFUL AS AN PHOTO. BY A. F. MINCHIN, DURING UNDER-STORY FOR TEAK. AUTHOR'S VISIT MARCH, 1925. MADRAS PRESIDENCY

AMERICAN FORTABLE SAWMILL ERECTED AT THE
RIVER DEPOT FOR PREPARATION OF SLEEPERS, ETC.
PRESIDENCY, 1925

A. F. Minchin, photo.

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NILAMBUR TEAK PLANTATIONS. COMPI. 15 FELLED, CLEARED AND READY
FOR PLANTING (IN JUNE, 1925) THE SECOND ROTATION CROP OF TEAK.
FOREGROUND COOLIES ARE PREPARING A NURSERY FOR RAISING

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VIEW AT LOW TIDE ACROSS THE LOG POND AT THE BEYPUR DEPOT. THE
TIMBER FROM THE NILAMBUR FORESTS IS FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER TO
THIS DEPOT, WHERE THE ARRANGEMENTS ARE STILL VERY PRIMITIVE.
MADRAS PRESIDENCY, 1925

A. F. Minchin, photo.

TEAK

REGENERATION IN THE HALIYAL TEAK POLE AREA, KANARA, N. D. (KHAMDALLI VII 22) 5 MONTHS OLD. PHOTO. BY A. CHILEY, 14 XI. 1925

A 1920 TEAK PLANTATION IN COMPT. 9, MINHI A RESERVE,
THARRAWADDY DIVISION. TEAK WAS SOWN 6FT X 6FT.
AND PYINMA (LAGERSTREMIA FLOS-REGINE) BROADCAST.
PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FEBRUARY, 1923, SHOWS A DENSE
UNDERGROWTH OF VINMA WITH FAIRLY VIGOROUS TEAK
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that pure teak in a second rotation is too grave a risk (and would any Forest Officer be prepared to put money of his own into the undertaking?). Perhaps this method might be tried, the intervening spaces being sown or planted with other species. An underwood of bamboo is also suggested. In any event the point which requires early solution by the Sylviculturist, as also by the Mycologist and Entomologist, is the fundamental one as to whether the cultivation of pure teak, or pure sâl and certain other species for that matter (the worship of the single species, in other words) is sound sylviculture in the Forests of India! At Nilambur small experimental areas have been sown up with Lagerstroemia Flos-Reginæ and Terminalia tomentosa. In the extensions these two species and rosewood have been interspersed in small patches with the teak. Bombax malabaricum is also being used.

Clear felling is also practised in the Mount Stuart Forests, the areas being sown up chiefly with teak; where the soil is too waterlogged they are sown up with Terminalia tomentosa. These operations were started on a small scale in 1919. By 1923-4 some 863 acres had been stocked with an established crop, in parts of which Adina cordifolia has come in naturally as an understory. In the Upper Godaveri, after clear felling, the debris is stacked in heaps and burnt, and these areas sown up with teak. The Gumsur Sâl Forests (Ganjam) Working Plan prescribes clear felling and cutting back of the young growth and burning, a good young crop being thereby obtained.

2. The System in Bombay.-Some three years ago a commencement was made in the North Kanara Division with clear felling and artificial regeneration. Under the new Working Plan now being completed by Mr. Davis areas have been selected in each of the two Working Circles, which are to be worked under this method. The total area selected (the areas are not contiguous) is sufficient to last for twenty years, which is the period which will elapse between the Improvement Fellings made in any block, the rest of the forest being worked under the Selection System. Practically speaking, these areas therefore form Periodic Block I of the total area to be worked under concentrated regeneration by the Quartier Bleu method. The Working Plans Officer is unable to indicate even roughly the areas which would fall into Periodic Block II, owing to the fact that the bamboo may flower and seed some time during the twenty years and