4 NOTE ON BENTEAK OR NANA WOOD. 



These figures were obtained at Nagargali at 2,200 feet above sea- 

 level : the rainfall was about 80 inches and the soil laterite with some 

 humus : the rock laterite overlying gneiss. The crop, in density '9, had 

 been fire-protected for six years and the other species were mostly Xylia 

 dolabriformis, Terminalia tomentosa and T. paniculate. Mr. D. A. 

 Thomson gives the following average diameters in his Working-Plan 

 for the Supa Fuel Reserves, North Kanara, Bombay : 

 Age 5 years : diameter 1'182 inches. 



10 2-229 



15 3-276 



,, 20 4-438 



25 5-68 



30 6-75 



35 7-89. 



40 8-947 



45 9-79 



50 10-8 



55 11-02 



60 12-04 



65 ., 12-51 



70 13-35 



In the Kanara Fuel Reserves he estimated that the average girth at 

 40 years was 30*72 inches, while in the KhanapurFuel Reserves in the 

 Belgaum district Mr. N. D. Satarawala gives the average girth at the 

 same age as 19'68 inches only. Mr. Satarawala also gives the follow- 

 ing figures for coppice shoots in the fame forests : 



Age 4 years : girth at centre of log in inches 8 



6 8-3 



7 ,, 9-5 



8 10-7 



10 13-5 



12 15-3 



