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NOTE ON BABUL. 

 Outturn and Prices of Babulin different localities. 



(e) USES OF TIMBEE. 



The timber is used chiefly for firewood, and a good deal of it is made 

 into charcoal. It is also used for a large variety of agricultural and 

 domestic purposes, such as the following : Posts, rafters, beams, door- 

 frames and other parts of houses, bodies of carts and carriages, yokes, 

 axles, shafts, naves, spokes and felloes, solid wheels, boat-building, 

 oars, sugar and oil-presses, rice-pounders, ploughs, harrows, clod-crushers, 

 Persian wheels, well-curbs, cattle-yokes, tent-pegs, boat-handles, bed- 

 steads, cooperage, packings of buffers of railway rolling-stock, carving 

 and turning, including carved dies for cloth-stamping, etc. The Divi- 

 sional Forest Officer, Sukkur, states that it is used as pit-props in the 

 Khost coal-mines in Baluchistan. 



As explained above, the timber was formerly used in the Gun-Carriage 

 Factory, and it has also been tried as a Railway sleeper wood, but in 



