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of trees cut from April 1st, 1909, to March 31st, 1910, was 84,107. 

 The cost was not avaihible at the time of writing- 



The period during which operations have been in progress 

 in the different parts of the Godavari up to the beginning of 1910 

 may be roughly summarised as follows : — Amalapur and parts 

 of Ramachendrapur and Cocanada a little over three years : 

 the rest of Ramachendrapur over two years and of Cocanada 

 about 18 months ; Peddapur about two years ; Rajahmundry 

 about 18 months ; Nagaram one year. At the same time it 

 must be understood that equal activity has not been shown 

 in all districts. Outlying ones have often neglected the work, 

 and the inspecting tours of the writer and of the controlling staff 

 have proved that several, perhaps many, villages have allowed 

 dead trees to accumulate for months. 



In the following table, which gives the figures of cut trees 

 paid for month by month from December 1908 to January 1910, 

 the figures do not accurately indicate new cases of disease since 

 the preceding month. In some villages the accumulations of 

 several months may be cut out in one effort as a result of 

 actual or threatened punishment, and will all appear in one month's 

 return. In others, through slack inspection or connivance of the 

 inspecting staff, the cutting of a large number of trees may be spread 

 over several months. Cases were seen by the writer in Nagaram 

 Taluk in February 1910 where, although some of the diseased palms 

 in a village had been recently cut, others that were of some months' 

 duration had been left standing and would go to swell the totals of 

 succeeding months. Hence though the table gives a general, it 

 does not give an exact, statement of the number of fresh infections 

 in the reporting villages each month. It is, of course, to be borne 

 in mind when considering the monthly totals for the whole area, 

 that the number of villages reporting increased month by month to 

 more than double the original figure. This does not imply that new 

 villages were infected, but merely that an increasing number took 

 up the work. 



