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2 ‘The seeds germinated frecly at first, but at the commencement of the hot
3 season they drooped and died away, with the exception of the babool plants, which
4 are coming on well.
5 Ten thousand teak plants wore transplanted during the last monsoon. Of
6 these, 400 died, andthe rest are alive and in a flourishing condition, About 37
7 bainboo plants were received from Colonel Nembbard, Commissioner, Kast Berar,
8 and planted. They are now in excellent condition.”
9 79. On examining this plantation in the cold weather, I found the only tree
10 that seemed to thrive naturally was the Baboo], All others died off during the hot-
11 weather unless constantly watered, and as they could therefore only be raised at
12 great expenditure, I have recommended that on the remaining area of the planta-
13 tion babool alone be grown. And to lessen the present expense of watering the
14 tenk, inango, and other fruit trees, I had a layer of grass, 14 inches thick, placed
15 round each plant to a distance of 2 feet. By this the Darugah was enabled to
16 reduce the number of waterings from twico a week to twice a month.
17 Next year the plants should require no artificial watering.
18 Expenditure on Plantations in the 80. The total exponditure on account of plan-
19 Oomrawuttee District. tations in the Oomrawuttee District during the past
20 year amounts to Rupees 1,579-0-6.
21 HEAD I.—STATE FORESTS AND LEASED FORESTS.
22 Section 5.—YIELD AND WORKING OF THE FORESTS.
23 opus ce we Ta ciie Ruut Bicaer ee, 81. No timber operations have been under-
24 taken in the State Forests during the year, with
25 the exception of the thinning out of old stems in the Byraghur Reserve already
26 alluded to.
27 82. The sale and ofport of these thinnings have been kept entirely in the
28 Sale of thinnings. hands of the Koorkoos; and Mr. Ballantyne reports
29 that altogether nearly 7,000 separate purchases
30 were made, and he estimates that, on an average, profits wore realized by the buyers
31 ef 100 per cent. on the prices paid by them to this Department at Pill.
32 83. There was a great demand for the wood at the bazaars, owing to the
33 Wand in prank derail export of teak from the unreserved forests of the
34 Mailghat having temporarily ceased, and to the
35 wood itself being larger and of better quality, than any that had been brought to
36 tho bazaars for years.
37 84. There being no mature timber in any of the reserves, the cluef revenue
38 Prospedtive thuber opera tian: to be derived from them for sometime will consist of
39 the proceeds of sales of thinnings suchas the above.
40 This revenue, however, ought nearly to suffice to cover al) expenditure, more
41 especially in the Mailghat, and by the time the thinning operations huve been car-
42 ried on over the whole area of the forests, much of the timber now standing will pro-
43 bably have arrived at a stage, when it can be felled with advantage.
44 85. As soon as demarcation work has béen completed in the Southern Divi-
45 P ne ‘onsinSouth 8!0n, thinning operations will also be commenced 1n
46 fear aise ca the reserves thore, for the same system of wood
47 cutting, which has destroyed the greater portion of
48 the teak in the Mailghat, has likewise prevailed in these forests, and stems of
49 simular growth, though of smaller size, are equally plentiful.