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Indian Forester. March 1918

1918

The diffeence between the English and the Continental attitude towards this subject was well illustrated by the French who with the invader at the very gates of Paris protested against the British troops firing the forest of Compiegne to drive out the Germans. [...] The great increase that has been made in the area of the reserves within the last few years bears witness to the increased enlightenment with which the subject is now treated but the absence of a definite and guiding policy still leaves us a prey to individual opinions and at the mercy of the Great Parish Pump Policy. [...] It is the extent of the tyloses development together with the age of the tree which to a considerable extent determines the colour of the lumber and causes the somewhat varied yellow gray or black. [...] In addition to necessary statistics it contains a complete history of the forest from the earliest tithes details of all silvicultural works carried out plantation made aka in the case of compartments under regeneration minute details as to the silvicultural idea which guided the marking officer in the execution of his fellings such al the species to be obtained in the new crop or the proporti [...] The alternative picture of the conscientious D. F. O. entering ' to-day's great thought' in the journal is doubtless attracive but how many D. F. O.'s retain the requisite degree of conscientiousness ? When it comes to the fevered writing up of the journal and the frenzied efforts to induce the all-too-blue ink to assume a decent-black on the eve of the annual office inspection the former m
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Effect of Storage on Some Tanning Materials
91-99 Puran Singh view
Wanted-A Forest Policy for Assam
100-113 A. W. J. Milroy view
Spike Disease in Sandal. An Interesting Isolated Area and Its Treatment
114-117 P. M. Lushington view
Charcoal Briquettes
118-122 R. S. Pearson, Puran Singh view
Arboriculture in Tending of Avenues
123-125 F. Trafford view
Paper-Making from Daphne Cannabina Wall. In Garhwai U.P.
125-126 Mathura Bhola view
Guiana Greenheart
126-130 T. Sington view
Bambusa Arundinacea Growing Epiphytically and Early Flowering of Sandal-Wood Trees
130-130 unknown view
Correspondence
130-138 unknown view
Extracts
138-140 unknown view
Backmatter
xxiii-xxxi unknown view

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