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2 208. Two hundred acres destroyed were re-sown in autumn, 100 acres suc-
3 ceeded and 50 acres were filled with 28,000 willow cuttings
4 and 194,848 sissoo transplants, leaving 50 acres to be done
5 Recovery of land. again during the year 1872-73. lam glad to say that
6 land is again forming along this plantation.
7 209. In Sddhanwdli, 380 acres sown were destroyed by floods. 200
8 acres were re-sown in September, but only 80 acres succeeded ; 50 acres more
9 were treated with transplants in winter.
10 Repairs.
11 210. Dehli.—330 acres were sown and destroyed by floods, which every-
12 where were unusually high ; 200 acres were successfully re-sown and re-planted,
13 including 8,000 mango trees.
14 211. Mr. Ribbentrop considers that the flood damage on the Sailaéba
15 Plantations might have been more oxtensively repaired
16 had more seed been available, and arrangements for keep-
17 ing a “reserve stock ” have been accordingly made.
18 Want of seed.
19 212, At Ndg, which is so near Amritsar that it is of importance to grow
20 Valuable trees at Nag, Very valuable timber, 43 additional acres of toon (Cedreta
21 near Amritsar. Toona) have been planted, and 4,000 Eucalyptus raised for
22 transplants during 1872-73.
23 213. Northern Suildbd.—The place was completely visited, surveyed, and
24 Site for a ‘great Nor- 2 careful map and report on the lands to be taken on the
25 thern Railway Plantation.” right bank of the Chenab submitted, with a view of making
26 a great Northern Plantation for the Northern State Railway. The work will
27 be arranged systematically, and the Jand occupied year by year, so that should un-
28 looked-for success be obtained in any of the rakhs and lands beyond, the process
29 of taking over more land can be at once stopped ; all that could be done was to
30 prepare a 10-acre nursery for future supply at Kuthdala, and a few acres (55) of
31 success at the Governinent Island of “ Thatta, Fakir-ulla ;”? the rest was drowned.
32 214, The following completed plantations were given back to the divisions
33 Completed plots returned Conveniently situated for their supervision: Tira, Rodéshah,
34 to divisions. (Lahore District,) and Serai Amdnat Khan, (Amritsar
35 District,) Sukh Rani and Khinwah, (Montgomery District,) to the Fuel Reserve
36 Division, Naushera Island, to Biis Division.
37 215. Ofthe former, Tira and Rodéshah are only avery limited success;
38 the soil is unsuited for the growth of Shisham, (which has generally proved a
39 failure after a heavy outlay,) and is only fit for the common ‘rakh tree’-—jhand
40 (Prosopis) and bér (Zizyphus ).
41 216. Moreover the water levels are unsuited, and water is raised only at
42 Failure of attempttosow ¢reatexpense. It is determined to give them out for cul-
43 ‘‘Tira” without water; tivation between the lines to loosen the soil, the cultivators
44 arrangements maclo. paying for the water. An experiment was made to see if
45 common jhand and bér seed would succeed without water, but this failed in spite
46 of rather abundant rain.
47 217. Serat Amédnat Khan is of the same sort.
48 218. Sukh Rani was treated by dibbling in common seed and was a success ;
49 “Rakh improvement sya. this place will be first-class “rakh.” Addnwah fairly com-
50 SeLIEY Repel eI Bae pleted, had water in 190 acres given it. No work was
51 done in Naushera Island.
52 219, Ludhidna, (good success,) Philor and Jalandhar, (fair success,) are all
53 Other Plantations. completed. Ludhiina was thinned : yielding in 200 acres,
54 3,900 maunds of wood.
55 220. A small rakh near Gujrénwila, called “ Kikrdnwalla,” covered with
56 fine “ kikar” and recently cut, was made over to the Plantation Division for
57 special restorative treatment. The year was occupied in settling the elabo-
58 rate boundary dispute, which twice took me to the place. It was surveyed and
59 demarcated finally last winter.