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Indian Forester. July 1918

1918

SIR I have the honour to submit for the favour of perusal the accompanying copy of the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts of the 25th May 1917 containing (a) a paper read at a Meeting of the Society on the 19th April at which I was invited to be present on the Recent Industrial and Economic Development of Indian Forest Products by Mr. [...] Were the prescriptions of this plan in these areas to be carried out in spite of the disaster and the uprooted trees in the different blocks dealt with accordingly or was the plan to be entirely suspended and a new scheme drawn up for the damaged trees only ? The problem was solved by first a suspension of the existing Working Plan with the consent of Government. [...] I take the opportunity of inviting attention in this connection to the report of the Royal Commission on Natural Resources and Trade and Legislation of the Overseas Dominions wherein the beter handling and disposal of the resources of the various parts of the Empire are recommended and it seems to me that the raw products of the Bassia latifolia and Bassia longifolia wherever they are foun [...] for the plantation every one of the Sandal trees was growing amidst good hosts with plenty of lateral shelter and overhead light and with good normal crowns and foliage The sudden removal of all the hosts which were for the most part grubbed out and the subsequent injury by fire caused to the roots and lower portions of the stem of the Sandal trees that survived the fire should I think have [...] In the case of a Sandal tree girdled deep into the heartwood at its base the upper portions of the tree must obviously depend on the tissues of the stem above the girdle for the supply of water and this being insufficient for the growth and nourishment of the long length of cambium above the girdle and for the translocationi9181 SPIKE DISEASE OF SAND.
agriculture environment
Pages
65
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Suggestions to Introduce Special Working Plans for the Exploitation of Bassia Latifolia Roxb. and Bassia Longifolia in India and to Restrict the Manufacture of their Raw Products within the Empire
291-315 G. M. Ryan view
Is Spike Disease of Sandal (San2Alum Album) Due to an Unbalanced Circulation of Sap?
316-324 K. R. Ayyar view
Spike Disease of Sandal
325-ii R. S. Hole view
How the Sindhi Fishermen Catch Live Mugers
335-335 D. G. Ommanney view
Meeting of the Board of Forestry
336-336 unknown view
King-Emperor’s Birthday Honours’ List 1918
336-336 unknown view
Obituary
337-337 Alexander Ross view
Correspondence
338-338 unknown view
Backmatter
lix-lxx unknown view

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