ESSAY ON FUEL PLANTATIONS. 



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are now employed all day long in planting out. Each pifc 

 is half filled by scraping in the rich, dark-brown hnmus lying 

 round, not the yellow sub-soil that has been taken, perhaps, 

 out of the bottom of the pit. The ball of moss-covered earth, 

 protecting the roots, is gently placed on the soil thus cast 

 in, and fresh humus thrown in and firmly pressed down all 

 round. If the plants are small, a few large clods should be 

 placed round, to partially break the force of the monsoon-gale- 



About the tenth* year, it will be necessary to thin out the 

 crop, if it is desired to form a mixed fuel and timber planta- 



tion ; but not otherwise. 



The best distance to plant Eucalyptus is undoubtedly 

 6 feet x 6 feet. This will give 1,200 trees to the acre, and at 

 ten years of age they ought to average t three trees to the 

 ton or produce a total of 400 tons at Rs. 8 per ton = Rs. 

 3,200. 



The following balance sheet will show the profit on the 

 transaction per acre : 



Statement C 10 years. 



* Sometimes as early as the fifth. 



t A ten-year old will produce a tofc, if growing by itself, and iu rich soil. 



