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ESSAYS ON THE BEST METHOD OF PLANTING 



Interest on the outlay incurred will amount at 10 per 

 cent., to, ou Rs. 64, Rs. 6-6-5 per annum. 



Felling aud sawing into billets at five annas per tree, 

 Es. 312-8-0. 



Carting 267f tons at Rs. 1-4-0 per ton = Rs. 334-13-1. 

 Supervision and Sundries Rs. 80. 

 Our account now stands thus : 



A. 



A Casuarina plantation can also be worked as a mixed 

 fuel and timber plantation, a percentage of the finest trees 

 being left to the acre after the smaller ones have been thin- 

 ned out; but, as this essay is entirely on fuel plantations, I 

 will not enter further into the subject. 



In addition to Casuarina, there is a considerabls variety 

 o indigenous and of introduced trees that yield the finest 

 fuel. 



