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2 ing them against sacrificing the future welfare of their forests
3 for a present revenue, and adding some useful rules for their
4 guidance in forest management.
5 GO. The following is a comparative statement of the reve-
6 nue from the unreserved forests of the different districts of the
7 Central Provinces during the past two years :—
8 ee — eae ee era os
9 DisTRIOTS. 1870-71. 1871-73.
10 Ra. A. P Rs. A. P
11 Jabalpur ‘ 18,682 14 8 8,469 8 O
12 Damo “% 11,947 4 7 13,164 3 3
13 Sagar fee a 27,366 11L 2 27,3456 710
14 Narsinghpur = 3,375 14 8 6,503 3 8
15 Balaghat.... oni <8 ai 15,044 4 8 17,434 13 11
16 Mandla ace eee eee oe 19,443 7 10 24,605 20 4
17 Nagpur : . 14,230 3 7 20,728 10 2
18 Wardha . 21,308 6 11 11,824 18 6
19 Sironcha ai 15,628 13 3 16,860 9 121
20 Chanda sie 32,73> 11 8 27,355 7 10
21 Raipur ae 41,028 1 11 26,590 9 7
22 Bilaspur is wn 56,438 10 3 16,981 15 6&6
23 Sambalpur .. os re
24 Betul mee me 19,829 3 3 20,046 5 4
25 Hoshangabad aie ees eee eee 18,550 O 8 | 16.204 4 4
26 Nimar ane cae dae wae ear 483,506 8 2 47,516 1210
27 Seoni mae er sae 46% eee 29.642 6 4} 562,076 311
28 Chindwara ‘ nee ede — 18,934 6 8 17,631 10 &
29 Bhandara .. oT ore ae one 28,264 0 6 29,312 1 6
30 Total receipts ae 8,71,852 14 5 3,98,861 1 8
31 = —
32 61. As an index to the requirements made on these forests
33 for the supply of the general population, the following statistics
34 of the amount of forest produce drawn during the past year
35 from the unreserved forests of the Baitul District have bcen
36 furnished by the Deputy Commissioner :—
37 ———
38 is &
39 — -— — ee - wee
40 —_ — 2.
41 ee a
42 =e
43 wee em
44 ba
45 Cart
46 loads.
47 1. Building timber aa ons = 25,840 9,750 20,120
48 2. Firewood — . sale 11,950 715 26,700
49 3. Bawmboos . ee ee nie 17,740 2,980 5,650
50 4 Grass : uae P 17,790 215 65,000
51 5. Charcoal wae 210 3,525 1,810
52 TOTAL en 73,530 17,185 119,180
53 ee hee ee 2 eee ee _- —_ a
54 — — a ~ -_
55 The equivalent of the above, Sccording to forest measurement,
56 would amount in round numbers to 445,000 cubic feet of building
57 timber, 133,000 maunds of firewood, 1,830,000 bamboos, 21,000
58 cart loads of grass, and 6,000 maunds of charcoal. These quan-
59 tities are very large when compared with the revenue of the
60 district, which for the year under report amounted to Ks. 20,046-
61 5-4, or a trifle more than was realized in 1870-71.
62 62. In Burma the manufacture and export of cutch or
63 catechu, forms, next to the sale of timber, the most important
64 item of forest revenue. According to a report by the Commis-
65 sioner of the Prome Division, the trade returns of 1869-70 show
66 that, out of 10,782 tons of catechu, valued at £193,602 sterling,
67 exported from the province, no less than 4,934 tons, re-
68 presenting a market value of £135,330, were the produce of
69 the cutch manutfactories within the limits of British territory.
70 Of this quantity 1,250 tons were estimated as the outturn of
71 1,894 catechu manufactories of the Prome and Thayotmyo Dis-
72 tricts, which gave employment to about 4,000 persons with
73 their families, or means of subsistence for a total popula-
74 tion of about 16,000 souls. From this it may be deduced that the
75 average earnings of each cutch manufacturer duing the season,
76 which lasts from November till March, may be estimated