ESSAY ON FUEL PLANTATIONS. 



or stealing them. If, however, provision is made for a 

 watchman, a sum of Rs. 170, at Rs. 12 per acre annually, 

 would have to be charged to this head, and selling charges 

 would come to about a thousand rupees, and these two items 

 would lower the profit to Rs. 1 3,600-0-5 j\ per acre for the 

 twenty-five years. 



Mixed Fuel Reserves. Supposing a man were to become 

 possessed of 500 acres of natural jungle, what would be the 

 most profitable method of working it, if it were near a large 

 town ? 



In the first place, such a block would most probably 

 consist of a mixture of trees, many species of which would 

 be of little or no value as fuel. 



I will here give a list of a few such trees, as it may be of 

 service in teaching the fuel planter what not to plant : 



The first thing to be done would be to cut down and get 

 rid of such trees, thorny bushes, and brushwood as uselessly 

 encumber the ground to the detriment of more valuable 

 fuel-producers, and dispose of them for what they will 

 fetch. The poorer classes of natives will be glad enough to 

 purchase for a trifle such stuff, and will remove it them- 

 selves. It will be necessary to exercise proper supervision 

 when this is being done, or damage may be committed. 



