Indian Forester. September 1918

cultivation in various localities in India where it began thriving well especially in the United Provinces and the Punjab was given up simply because the preliminary experiments on the extraction of fat and oil from the seeds indicated that the labour and expense involved in collecting seeds and extracting the tallow were far in excess of the value of the products. [...] Even when the trenches are filled to the brim the water does not percolate to the seed and in alkali the sides of the trenches rapidly subside causing the seed to fall into the bottom of the trench where it rots in the water. [...] On the right of the picture the growth of the Sissoo is excellent and the sharp line dividing the good soil from the alkali which is very clkaracteistic will be noticed. [...] An account of the experiment was to be compiled by the officer in charge of that branch and a record of the commencement of the experiment had to be sent to the Directeur" of Forests. [...] As an illustration of the results of the sound investment of capital in forest communications I quote the following case:— In the seven years up to the year 1910-11 the average expenditure on roads in the Rahatgaon and Magardha Ranges of Hoshang-abad Division was Rs.