ON BTJA SAL OE VENGAl. 



Division, Travancore, is between 3,000 and 5,000 Ibs. per annum, but it IB 

 not collected nor exported at present from Travancore. 



In October 1874 the price of Kino in London was about 8& per 

 pound, but it rose in 1894 to 4*. 6d. and shortly afterwards to 17*., 

 where it remained for some time. In 1896, as a result of measures 

 taken in India through the Forest Department, the price fell to 12*. 

 and at the end of the year 1899 to 2s. In 1900 the low price of 

 Is. per pound was reached. Since then it appears to have remained 

 at much the same level and is now quoted in London at 9d. to 1*. 2d. 



It is said to be used in Europe to a considerable extent in the manu- 

 facture of certain wines, but from the latest figures obtainable from the 

 Collector of Customs in Madras and Bombay and from the Conservator 

 of Forests at Coimbatore, it appears that the demand has recently fallen 

 off and that collection has almost ceased. The Conservator of Forests 

 states that the gum used to be collected in North Malabar in considerable 

 quantities, but ceased owing to the fall in prices, and the small remainder 

 of the stock in hand was sold in June 1908. The Collector of Customs, 

 Bombay, reports that there were no exports of the gum from that port 

 between 1905 and 1910. The Collector of Customs, Madras, supplies 

 the following figures which show the export of Gum Kino from the 

 Madras Presidency : 



In 1900 proposals were made that tannin should be extracted on a 

 large scale from the bark for tanning purposes. An extract of a sticky 

 consistency prepared in Coorg from the bark after immersion in water 

 was found to contain 38 percent, of tannin, and the dry extract made from 



