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2 losses, the result of which will be that the customary exorbitant prices can no
3 lopger be offered for timber in the foreign states. A sign of improvement
4 in the trade is the export to the Lurope markets of sawn teak timber to the
5 extent of 80 tons.
6 54. In Mysore 35,393 pieces of timber, valued at £5,400,
7 and 36,282 pieces of sandal-wood, valued at £27,125, making a’
8 total valuc of £32,525, were brought to depét during the past
9 year, besides about 27 tons of unassorted sandal-wood which
10 was not brought on the accounts. ‘The sales of timber and san-
11 dal-wood realized £30,754, while the expenditure on the year’s
12 operations amounted to £6,231. The rcsults, therefore, may on
13 the whole be looked on as satisfactory. Iu Coorg the collections
14 Qimainly of sandal-wood) amounted in value to £273, and the sales
15 to £22,755, against an expenditure of £1,294.
16 55. In the Berar Forests, according to the report of the Con-
17 servator, no timber operations have been undertaken in the State
18 Forests during the year, with the exception of thinning out of old
19 stems in the Byraghar Reserve already alluded to. The sale and
20 export of these thinnings have been kept entirely in the hands of
21 the Kurkus; altogether nearly 7,000 separate purchases were
22 made by Kurku speculators from the Department, and, on
23 an average, profits were rcalized by them of 100 per cent. on
24 the prices paid for the timber at depdt. There was a creat
25 demand for the wood at the bazaars, owing to the export
26 of teak from the unreserved forests of the Mailghit having
27 temporarily ceased, and to the wood itself being larger and of
28 better quality than any that had been brought to the bazaars
29 for years. There being no mature timber in any of the reserves,
30 the chief revenue to be derived from them for some time will
31 consist of the proceeds of sales of thinnings such as _ the
32 above. This revenue, however, ought nearly to suffice to cover
33 all expenditure, more especially in the Mailghat, and by the time
34 the thinning operations have been carried on over the whole areca
35 of the forests, much of the timber now standing will probably
36 have arrived at a stage when it can be felled with advantage,
37 56. In the southern districts of Berar it is proposed to
38 work the babul (4cacia) forests as coppice on a 15 years’ rota-
39 tion, and opcrations will be commenced over a fixed area during
40 the current year, and experiments made with the object of ascer-
41 taining the surest and cheapest means of raising a fresh growth
42 of babul to supplement the produce of the coppice-stools; for
43 at present, owing to the distance at which the trees generally
44 stand from one another, the full quantity of timber that the land
45 is capable of yielding is not realized.