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Trees producing tans and dyes, such as, myrabolan, divi-divi 

 (Caesalpina coriarea, or better still, C. dignya), asan, arjun, 

 che.li, kamela (Mallotus Philippinerisus), lodh, anatto, and 

 other trees with special economic value, should be grown 

 only in special localities which are also not quite suitable for 

 agricultural purposes, e. g , in various parts of the Chhotanag- 

 pur Division. For agricultural tracts, the trees that should 

 be grown should yield fodder and food or they should be so 

 fast growing that they may yield fuel in abundance and 

 without much waiting, relieving cattle-dung for manural pur- 

 poses. Lastly, with regard to trees it should be mentioned 

 that they cost scarcely anything keeping up after they are 

 once grown up, and a plantation of mangoes, cocoanut, 

 guava, limetrees, plantains, bamboos, date, jack, papaya and 

 other fruit trees, though expensive and troublesome to set upj 

 is a most valuable property for a capitalist who can afford to 

 wait for the return. Indeed for a capitalist it is much safer in- 

 vestment taking up poor land for such a plantation than going 

 in for ordinary agricultural pursuits. Each tree can be safely 

 relied upon to yield, on an average, 4 as. per annum, if the 

 plantation is situated anywhere within easy reach of a town. 

 An acre would carry about 100 trees of various kinds. After 

 6 or 7 years the income per acre will be thus about Rs. 25 per 

 annum without any further outlay, and the trees can be annu- 

 ally leased out to fruit sellers at this rate. 



551. The trees which are best to grow are : (i) Mango. 

 Stonekernels of the mango fruit yield a starch which can be 

 used for bread-making, i.e. after the kernels have been pound- 

 ed and washed with hot water. (2) Jack. (3) Bread-fruit 

 tree. (4) Cashew-nuts. (5) Bael. (6) Babul. (7) Jhand or Shami 

 (Prosopis spisigera) which is a moderate sized, deciduous, 

 thorny tree, found in the arid dry zones of the Punjab, Sind, 

 Rajputna, Gujrat, Bundelkhand and Deccan. This tree is as 

 valuable as carob-beans in time of scarcity. The pods, 

 which ripen before and during the rains, contain a consider- 



