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exported. The royalty is 2 annas per cubic foot and about 10,000 cubic 

 feet are available annually near the Railway line. 



In Gwalior the tree occurs with teak and other species over a large 

 area, but only as coppice shoots from old stumps* It is much in demand 

 by villagers and the royalty charged is R3 per cart-load or 2 annas per 

 cubic foot. It is called Saj in Malwa and Sader in other parts. 



In Indore it is abundant everywhere, but attains large dimensions 

 only in a few favoured localities along the Satpura Hills on the borders 

 of Khandesh, where tall straight trees of 7 feet girth are sometimes 

 found. It grows to 4 or 5 feet in girth in the south-west of Nimawar, 

 near the Chandgurh Reserve, Central Provinces, but such trees contain 

 little heart- wood. The timber always commands a fair price for local 

 building purposes and is valued for shafts. Small poles of a girth of 

 less than 18 inches are scarcely saleable, but it is used for ploughs, 

 agricultural implements, fuel and charcoal and the bark is valued for 

 tanning. It is called Sadar, Saj, or Sajada. 



(iv) Berar. 



Vernacular names. Sajar, Saj, Sadora, Ain. 



Local distribution. Only in Betul, Nimar and Melghat does this 

 tree grow to a large size, 6 to 8 feet in girth with a 50 feet bole, but 

 individuals of this size are not common, and it is frequently stunted and 

 shrubby owing to the poverty of the soil. It is however fairly abundant, 

 forming up to 20 per cent, of the crop in favourable valleys. On the 

 flat plateaux on the basalt it is little more than a shrub. 



Extraction. Most of the wood is felled small in Coppice forests but 

 large timber is removed in Improvement fellings from Betul and Melghat 

 in the north of Berar, and it may be anticipated that a fairly large 

 quantity of timber will be available for export from these forests when 

 the new railway in the north of Berar has been built. Most of the 

 extraction will be done by carts, dragging from the stump being neces- 

 sary in the hilly tracts. In Betul an estimate has been made that 20,000 

 cubic feet will be available annually, two annas per cubic foot royalty 

 being charged on the outturn, all work being done by the purchaser. 

 From the Melghat forests timber can be delivered at Amraoti for 

 Rll per cart-load of 6 maunds, the rate for the same to Ellichpur being 

 ft 8. From the Betul forests timber can be carted to Itarsi in the 

 floshangabad district for R5 per cart-load of 15 cubic feet- 



