The Indian Forester March 1919

7. The diameter of the patches and width of the strips should not exceed the height of the adjacent trees. [...] The larger the patches and the wider the strips the stronger is the resulting growth of weeds and the greater the damage to the seedings by drought. [...] On the whole the best width for the strips and for the diameter of the patches is three-fourths the average height of the adjoining trees. [...] Venkataramana Ayyar's article was published together with the article in the same issue of the Forester since this has probably weakened the force of an admirable exposition of the state of affairs in the Javadis." Seeing that my comment referred to no statement of fact but merely to the opinions expressed regarding the bearing of certain facts on the theory of sap circulation it is not easy to [...] Tireman in Coorg in carefully observing in the forest the connection between the incidence of the disease and various factors (such as the existence of lantana occurrence of fires etc.) and in then experimentally testing the effect of such factors individually on the incidence of the disease with the object of ultimately securing some degree of control over the disease through these factors.