NOTE ON DHAURA. OR BAKLI. 11 



In few localities is it sound, the constant fires having made it knotty 

 externally and full of heart-shakes and dry rot internally. 



Extraction. Where fuel is much in demand in Madras the forests 

 are usually worked as Coppice with Standards. In the more remote hill 

 timber forests the tree is selected as required by purchasers who drag the 

 logs to the nearest cart-road. From most of the forests little timber will 

 be available for some time to come and figures are given below for those 

 divisions which will be able to provide it. 



In Coorg the tree is called Dindiga and is found extensively in the 

 eastern forests, attaining a girth of six feet in favourable localities. It is 

 not used locally but is exported for use as props in the Kolar Gold 

 Mines. The Government royalty is 2| annas per cubic foot, and about 

 10,000 cubic feet will be available annually, 30,000 cubic feet having 

 been extracted during the last three years. 



In Hyderabad the tree is called Dhaura, Tiruman, Dhamora, Sirriwal, 

 Dhounda, Sirward, Gondi&nA is one of the most useful trees of the State. 

 Good poles sell readily for R2 each, and are used very largely for cart 

 axles and ploughs. Smaller poles are much used as props in sugar-cane 

 plantations. Near Hyderabad city it is made into charcoal. It is 

 generally distributed but does not attain any size in the southern or 

 western divisions. In the Telingana forests near the Godavery it some- 

 times attains a girth of 4 feet but it is seldom that a sound log of more 

 than twelve inches in diameter is obtained. About 500,000 poles have 

 been and can be extracted annually from the Warangal, Karimnagar and 

 Adilabad forests. 



In Mysore it is called Dindiga and is common and often gregarious in 

 the forests of the Mysore, Kadur and Shimoga districts. It is used for 

 axe-handles, axles, furniture, etc., and in the Kolar Gold Mines. About 

 75,000 cubic feet may be extracted annually. During the last three 

 years 192,000 cubic feet have been extracted. 



In Travancore the tree is called FeJckali or Maru KancJiiram and is 

 very abundant in parts of the southern portion of the State, on the 

 Cardamon Hills, and elsewhere in the drier deciduous forests up to 4,000 

 feet, always avoiding the wetter parts of the country. It attains a 

 diameter of two feet, yielding axe-handles, poles, etc., and is much cut for 

 fuel and charcoal in South Travancore where it rarely attains a large size 

 on the dry slopes (Bourdillon), 



