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Indian Forester. August 1918

1918

In the case of a canal like the Upper Bari Doab Canal at the tail of which Changa Manga is situated the whole discharge of the river is forced intoT918] /RR/GATED PI AN/AT/0MS IN THE PUNJAB 343 the canal during the cold weather and yet the canal is running only about half full and all the water is wanted for the wheat crop the area of which is limited by the supply of water available from NoveM [...] During the progress of work during the dry weather I went over the ground and thought that a good deal of the damage might be avoided by directing the logs over the falls and in a series of experiments I found that logs which would in a high flood be likely to go over the falls near the left bank of the river would strike on rocks at the bottom and suffer damage. [...] The whole was tied together with cross beams of Pyingado bolted to the posts with iron bolts and nuts This permitted the free passage of the water but would direct the logs in the direction required towards the right bank of the river. [...] Directly the gate is dropped the roping of the captives commences and is accomplished first by passing noosed ropes into the Keddah with hooked and forked stakes and getting thejn on to the animals' legs the rest of the rope being made fast to the nearest tree outside ; the men then get the neck rope on and as far as I could ascertain go into the Keddah to do so ; when this has been done the [...] On going a few yards further we came on the dead tigress barely cold lying just at the side of the road ; I examined the body and found it bore the marks of three canine teeth in the back of the neck and of two canine teeth in the off-fore shoulder and the off-fore leg was broken.
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Walnut Bark
339-342 Puran Singh view
Irrigated Plantations in the Punjab
342-i R.N. Parkar view
Note on the Sinmakadin Falls Pegu District Lower Burma
347-350 J.B. Ressanges view
Stock Maps
350-351 Ngadauk view
Prize-Day at the Burma Forest School Pyinmana
352-357 unknown view
Elephant Catching in Tenasserim
358-365 J.C. Hopwood view
Shikar Experiences
365-368 P. Dobson view
Obituary
368-370 unknown view
Correspondence
370-373 unknown view
Extracts
374-382 unknown view
Gazette Notifications
lxxi-lxxvi unknown view
Quotations for Forest Products
lxxvii-lxxx unknown view
List of Books and Publications Received by the Honorary Editor During the Month of June 1918
lxxxi-lxxxi unknown view

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