Section 10 in The Indian Forest Service (Probationers' Final Examination) Regulations, 1968
10. Utilisation
10.1Paper I. - Definition scope and terminology; development of logging in India - of research, development, training, users and manufacturers; logging development process, coordination; basic logging - hand tools and their maintenance, power; chair saw, short bar power chain saw - use and attachments, felling (including felling of leaning trees)-cross cutting, delimbing etc., of road transport - ground skidding, various kinds of tractors and attachments used in skidding, dragging winches, winches, aerial transportation; major transportation-loading devices, truck transportation, water transportation; departmental logging and its merits; marketing and sales; timber depots-size, organisation and management; forest labours organisation and management, wages to labourers; physiological studies in logging; logging planning-various factors and their impact, investment calculations - machine cost calculator's for various forestry machines, road planning, logging organisation and administration control; work study and its application in logging; safety measures in logging; logging machines in advanced countries.Practicals. - Maintenance of saws, hand tools, work study methods and planning.10.2Paper II - Introduction - definition; non-timber forest products of India and their importance in rural and industrial economy of the country; survey of non-timber forest products; fibres and flosses - fibre yielding plants; method of cultivation of important fibre yielding plants; grasses, bamboos and canes, various grasses and their uses; bamboos-species of bamboo, their occurrence, cultivation, exploitation and uses, bamboo survey, important species of canes - their distribution, practice of cultivation harvesting, processing and uses; essential oils - methods of extraction of essential oils; essential oil bearing plants of commercial importance and the methods of their cultivation and exploitation.Oil seeds. - Important oil seeds obtained from forests, their methods of collection, processing, packing and storage.Gum resins and oleoresins. - Commercial gums, resins and oleoresins and their economic importance; methods of tapping of important gums, resins and oleoresins; processing, grading, packing and storage of gums. Tans and dyes - vegetable tanning materials obtained from forests, their extraction, processing handling and storage; important dyes.Drugs, poisons and insecticides - Important drugs available from forests, method of cultivation, harvesting; processing and grading; poisons and insecticides.Edible plants, nuts and spices.Rubber and gutta percha; method of tapping, processing and uses of rubber.Charcoal. - Various types of kilns used for manufacture of charcoal; charcoal dust briquettes.Miscellaneous products. - Bidi leaves; products of destructive distillation of wood, leaf folder, others.Animal products. - Lac and shellac; silk and tassar, miscellaneous products-honey wax and ivory etc.Mineral products.II. Exercises in the First Year
