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mulberry timber. In a 20 years old crop which has been repeatedly thinned, 

 almost every stem should yield a log of 5 feet length and most of them 

 one of 12 feet, whereas at present only one tree out of several gives a 5| 

 feet log and one out of many a log of 12 feet. As has been remarked already 

 timber pays better than firewood. A good stack of mulberry firewood may 

 be sold for Es. 9 per hundred cubic feet which is roughly equivalent to 

 Ee. 0-2-6 per cubic foot solid. Persian lilac ballas which if cut up into fire- 

 wood reduce the value of mulberry stacks can be sold (at any rate in small 

 quantities) at annas 5 per cubic foot. Hence timber of the poorest quality is 

 worth twice as much as the best class of mulbery firewood, consequently as 

 much as possible of the outturn should be sold as timber. The thinnings will 

 necessarily yield only firewood and this will in future have to be sold together 

 with the whole of the final yield. Moreover, in a few years other plantations 

 such as Kot Lakhpat and Chichawatni will be supplying firewood and hence 

 the more the Changa Manga timber outturn can be increased the better it will 

 be both for Changa Manga and for Chichawanti and Kot Lakhpat which will 

 necessarily be unable to supply any appreciable amount of timber in the first 

 rotation and will compete with Ghanga Manga in the firewood market. At 

 present a sudden increase in the supply of mulberry or Persian lilac timber 

 would probably be followed by a considerable fall in prices, and it is possible 

 that the plantation can supply more of these timbers than there is a demand 

 for, but it seems much more likely that any fall in prices will be temporary 

 and will be followed by an increase in the demand owing to the timber bein" 

 put to new uses, and a return to the original prices. 



36. Appendix I gives a tabular statement of the fellings. In the first 



year the areas planted up and not yet felled in 

 compartments 66, 67, 68 and 90 will be felled 



along with compartments 106 and 107. These areas should have been felled 

 at the time fellings were made in the adjacent compartments and as this has 

 not been done it is desirable to fell them as soon as possible so that the com- 

 partments may be taken in their proper sequence when fellings come round 

 again without sacrificing immature growth. It will be noted that these areas 

 are prescribed for felling twice during the working plan period. Thus com- 

 partment 66 will be felled once in 1916-17 and again in 1930-31 at 14 years 

 old, and compartments 67 and 68 in the following year at 15 years old. Simi- 

 larly, the greater part of compartment 90 will be felled a second time in the 

 working plan period at the) age of 17 years. Thus the total area of the 20 

 coupes to be felled comes to 9,479 acres, whereas the total area of the plantation 

 within compartment boundaries amounts to 9,19T1 acres. 



37. As far as possible in the past fellings have been made between 1st 



Manner of execute tha felling,. October " 31S * Mtadb. A this should be COn- 



tmued. There is no sylvicultural objection to 



fellings being made between 1st April and 30th September if it is desired to 

 finish off arrears and labour can be obtained at this season, but as there are 

 other works which require to be done at this time of year it is more convenient 

 to finish the main fellings by 31st March. The wood cut is usually left for 

 12 months to dry before being carried to dep6t, and hitherto it has been 

 usual to carry firewood by tramway and logs by carts as the removal of 

 the logs has generally been in advance of removals of firewood. This leads 

 to waste since for compartments 90 105 the present rates for carriage of 

 logs by cart and by tramway are Ee. 1-1-0 and Ee. 0-8-6 per log, conse- 

 quently logs should, as far as possible, be carried by tramway and the 

 removal of the firewood and timber should proceed evenly. It may be 

 noted, however, that the demand for mulberry timber is for green wood 

 and consequently the mulberry timber is removed as soon as possible 

 after felling by carts. When the yield of .mulberry timber increases it will be 

 a matter for consideration whether it is better to continue removing the mul- 

 berry logs by carts or whether the tramway should be laid as soon as the lo^s 

 are ready for removal. Having laid the tramway for mulberry logs it will be 

 necessary either to leave it idle for 12 months" till the firewood is dry and fit 

 for removal or it can be taken up and relaid for the removal of firewood. 



