The Indian Forester May 1919

The main objects of the experiments were to ascertain (1) the best method of pollarding (2) the best rotation for pollarding so far as the yield of lac and the maintenance of the vitality of the trees is concerned (3) the quantity of broolac required to obtain a full crop and the best method of tying it upi (4) the extent to which parasitic and predaceous insects may be exterminated by the p [...] BY ARPI The impetus given to the important problem of the full development of the enormous forest resources of the Indian Empire by the Great War must lead to much searching of the heart as to the best means of providing for the control and exection of work entrusted to the Indian Forest Department. [...] It is customary in Working Plans to give a description of the geology of the tract dealt with ; in very many Working Plans all reference to the geology stops with the description and no attempt is made to show the effect of the different rock types on the forest growth although this is so evidently the reason why the Code prescribes that a description of the Geology should be included in Part I [...] It is true that T. arabica is at present verimperfectly known and it is possible that additional material of it may in the future justify the placing of the Arabian and Indian tree in one species but in view of the existing differences between them and of the confusion which has been caused in the past by the identification of extra-Indian with Indian species it is in the writer's opinion at [...] It is obviously a great economy in tranport costs to reduce the wood to pulp at or near the place where the wood grows and to transport the pulp instead of the wood to the paper mill which is best placed in or near the centres of paper consumption and so the separation between pulp-making and paper-making proper occurred and is now a permanent feature of the industry as a whole.