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The Indian Forester; A Monthly Magazine of Forestry Agriculture Shikar & Travel August 1884

1884

The questions were :- 1. How can the produce of the forests be turned to account in the most advantageous manner ? 2. What measures must be taken for the preservation of the forests and 3. What can be done for the extension and consolidation of the forests ? To answer the first question it was of course necessary to form some estimate of the amount of timber the forests would be able to yield with [...] The outcome of a long correspondence and several meetings was that the Forest Department retained unconditionally the management of the exploitation of the Tharrawaddy forests and that the rest of the Pegu forests were disposed of on 12 years' leases specially prepared under the advice of the Advocate General. [...] It cannot be gainsaid that the concentration of the timber works would have facilitted and cheapened them but the introduction of this mesure would have sealed the warrant for the destruction of the Pegu forests and luckily our champion of forestry in Burma was to the fore and pointing out the fallacies in the arguments brought forward saved the Burma forests for the time being and secu [...] The initial expense would be greater but the difference in the demarcation expenses of a reserve demarcated with boards and of one demarcated with plates would in '20 years be very much in favour of the latter ; the hole in the plate should of course be at the top and not in the middle as at present in the boards. [...] The chief disadvantages with which the export trade of wheat from the Punjab has to contend are to be found in the ineffective methods which obtain of harvesting and storing the grain in the neglect of means for cleaning it before despatch to the seaboard and in the frequent practice of mixing and adulterating grain which is intended for the market.
agriculture environment
Pages
57
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i W.R. Fisher view
The Indian Forester; A Monthly Magazine of Forestry Agriculture Shikar & Travel August 1884 No.8
343-xxxviii W.R. Fisher view

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