The Indian Forester November 1919

We know that teak is exceedingly responsive to light and it is found in plantations that 1 00o seedlings per acre dwindle down in 100 years to 20 trees which means that in this time teak increases 50-fold the proportion of the area it occupies and therefore it is obviously just as easy to favour the teak at the expense of the jungle as to let the jungle encroach on the teak and to increase the p [...] To restrict the yield of a forest to its productive capacity and to carry out sylvicultural operations to ensure the maintenance and improvement of the capital value of a forest is the essence of Forestry but there are few cases in the British Empire where such an object has been attained and I consider the chances of attaining a fair standard of Forestry in Burma are now extremely remote. [...] This is slow work and the cost rises more in propotion to the length of the rolling roads than to the length covered by the shoots ; but on the proper planning and alignment of the rolling roads depends the successful extraction of the timber. [...] Cost of Operations.—It is too soon as yet to give the cost of the present logging operations as most of the 9 500 logs launched in 1918 are still in the river owing to the exceptionally low level of the Sutlej and Baspa rivers during 1918 caused by the failure of the winter snows and monsoon rains. [...] I sent the instructor to the plantation with a list of questions to answer as to the contour of the farm soil and sub-soil whether the pest was worst at the ton of any slopes on the farm or at the bottom and if at the bottom whether the land was.