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2 of minor forest produce held by the Mahirdjah of Bulrampur. As this lease
3 expired on the 14th of January 1872, the khair troes will now obtain the rest
4 which they require. Dhao trees out of which cart axles are made, and koosoom,
5 which 1s manufactured into oil crushers, are abundant in the Tilsfpur Govern.
6 ment Forests, and are greatly in demand. The sdél, which grows on the Gonda
7 and Bharaich hills, is of superior quality, though of slow growth and moderate
8 size. The 8th section of the Bharaich Forests contains a large stock of excel-
9 lent sil timber.
10 7. Fires are reported to have been. kept out of considerable portions of
11 the Gonda and Bharaich Government Forests.
12 A ssc bar tc tor prevent and to An agreement was entered into for one year with
13 = the tharoos of the Kheri Forests, that in consi-
14 deration of exemption for the payment of grazing dues, they should render
15 personal service when. required to put out jungle fire. Earnest efforts were
16 wmade to keep out and to extinguish fires in that division also, which were
17 attended with temporary success, but the fires were lit again, as often as they
18 were extinguished, and only small patches of the Kheri Forests have been saved
19 from the ravages of this destructive eloment.
20 8. The closure of all the roads except the main one leading through
21 the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th blocks of the Khyreegarh sl forest, for the purpose
22 of preventing fire originating inside these blocks, had not the desired ettect,
23 owing probably to cattle-trespass, and to the admission of carters, who set fire
24 to the grass to facilitate their search for logs in No. 3 block, and also owing to
25 the necessity for keeping one road open for traffic.
26 9. A small patch of sil forest in the 6th section of the Bharaich Divi-
27 sion, where no sal seedlings have come up for
28 years, was enclosed as an experinyent, by means of
29 a dead thorn hedge, at the beginning of last rains, and some s&l seed was
30 scattered inside the enclosure. On inspecting this pateh of forest in February
31 1872, hundreds of healthy sil seedlings were counted, while not a single sal
32 seedling can be found any where else throughout the whole of the .6th and
33 7th sections of the Bharaich Government Forests. This proves the necessity
34 for keeping cattle out of low-lying sdél forests for a period of years, in order to
35 obtain their natural reproduction. It has been observed that a few head of
36 cattle will clear every seed from under sal and other trees in a very short time,
37 and they kill the germs,of tree seedlings wherever thoy tread.
38 Encouraging result of forest enclosure.
39 SECTION IT,
40 RESERVES,
41 10. The arrangement with the Mahdrd4jah of Bulrampur referred to in
42 Result of the assignment of village the previous year’s report, was completed during
43 forests to the Méhirdjah of Bulrmmpur. the year under review. By that agreement,
44 47,628 pucka beegahs of forest and jungle, which at five-eights ofan acre to 1 bee-
45 gah, are equal to 46°5 square miles (not 24°7 as erroneously stated in Oudh Forost
46 report for 1870-71), wore made over to the Maharajah in cammutation of all
47 his and his tenants rights and privileges in the Government Forests of the
48 Gonda Division, and of the 8th Seetion of the Bharaich Division. Qovernment,
49 therofore, holds absolute proprietary rights in these portions of the Oudh Go-
50 vernment Forests.
51 11. A. list of the waste ‘land allotmonts in Oudh transferred to this
52 Wood land allutmenta added to the department during 1871-72, is attached. (Ap-
53 Oudh Government Forest during tlie year. pendix 1.) Their aggregate area is 86,930 acres,
54 or about 136 square miles. But the area of a number of theso grants will be
55 somewhat reduced when the portions of jungle equal to cultivation to which
56 the grantecs are cutitied have been marked off and .nade over to them.