The Indian Forester, Volume 23R. P. Sharma, Business Manager, Indian Forester., 1897 - Forests and forestry |
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1st grade 2nd grade 3rd grade 4th grade acres agricultural amount appointed Assam Babul bamboos Bamsu bark Bombay Burma cattle cent Central Provinces charge Circle colour Conservator of Forests coppice cost coupes crop cultivation dated December Dehra Dehra Dun Deodar Deputy Conservator Dietrich Brandis District Divisional Forest Officer effect export Extra Assistant Conservator February feet felling fibre fire Forest Department Forest Division Forest Ranger Forest School Forestry furlough GAZETTE girth Government granted grass grazing growth Gutta-percha important inches increase India Indian Forester insects January Kaulia Khandesh khedda land less loads logs Lower Burma Madras mahout matter ment months nitrogen Notification Officiating Deputy Conservator pine plantations plants privilege leave produce protection quantity resin rhea rubber seed seedlings servator sledge road soil species square miles substance supply teak timber tion trees village wood yield
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Page 34 - ... the South: and they are always hampered by lack of funds. But since a Forest Officer's business takes him far from the beaten roads and the regular stations, he learns to grow wise in more than woodlore alone ; to know the people and the polity of the jungle ; meeting tiger, bear...
Page 167 - If trees are to be kept some time, or shipped by a nurseryman, about two inches of root should be left, the planter to cut back as directed when the tree is set. About a foot of top should be left, more or less makes no difference.
Page 56 - It is used almost in all cases in which gutta-percha is used, but on account of its higher price only for superior purposes." " It seems that balata is treated by the manufacturers simply as a superior kind of gutta-percha, and, therefore, its name disappears when manufactured." " Nevertheless, balata is distinctly different from guttapercha, and this is especially manifested in some of its physical characters, for instance, it is somewhat softer at ordinary temperature, and not so rigid in the cold.
Page 142 - The new reserves include all the central portion of the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Big Horn Mountain Range in Wyoming, the Jackson Lake...
Page 376 - ... comparatively narrow limits of its natural environment, the camphor tree grows well in cultivation under widely different conditions. It has become abundantly naturalized in Madagascar. It flourishes at Buenos Ayres. It thrives in Egypt, in the Canary Islands, in south-eastern France, and in the San Joaquin Valley in California, where the summers are hot and dry. Large trees, at least two hundred years old, are growing in the temple courts at Tokyo, where they are subject to a winter of seventy...
Page 239 - The history of this new rubber industry in Lagos is full of interest, and illustrates the wonderfully rich resources of the vast forests of West Africa. It shows also very clearly how largely these resources can be developed by judicious and intelligent action on the part of the Government.
Page 183 - This proposed reserve no doubt contains for its area the largest and most valuable body of timber belonging to the nation ; and here is probably the only part of the United States where the...
Page 349 - This is placed in an iron pot of boiling water, and the wax, melting, rises to the surface, is skimmed off and placed in a round mould, whence it emerges as the white wax of commerce. Where it is found impossible to remove the wax by hand, twigs and branches are thrown into the pot, so that this wax is darker and inferior.
Page 172 - It usually exudes in October and "occurs partly in tears of a yellowish tinge, partly in colourless angular fragments which are full of fissures like those of gum-arabic. It has a disagreeable taste, is not astringent ; about one half is completely soluble in water; the remaining portion forms a slimy mucilage, but is ODINA Wodier.
Page 182 - River forest reserve, which the report of the commission characterizes as "the most valuable body of timber in the interior of the continent." If you decide to make this Executive order, I shall prepare and submit to Congress a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to indemnify the beneficiaries in any of these railroad land grants included within the limits of forest reservations established by proclamation of the President by patenting...