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8 No, would only plant a few lunnmidella where 
'elevation is suitable and gums higher np on the 
edges of ravines and on waste patches near swamps 
At wide distances apart. This would give shade in the 
present and timber for odd jobs in the future. 
A Manager bordering on Yakdessa tells ns : — 
1 I have never used coal or coke for tea manu- 
facture : most estates on this side of the district 
have large reserves of forest and chena. Firewood 
costing from 60 to 70 cents a yard delivered at factory. 
2 The timber is not very good, mosily from quick- 
.growing trees (a yard of well-seasoned Doon would be 
equal to about three yards). Cost per lb. made tea 
•one cent where an engine is the motive power. 
3 On some estates the supply of fuel is ample; 
towards the Gampola end of the district, fuel is 
■scarce. 
4 Mostly in private hands. 
5 Yes, very largely. 
6 Yes. 
7 Grevillea and iron bark gum grow best. 
8 It takes too long for any suitable (building 
timber) tree to grow. Mcnni chests are so much 
better thon the native-made ones, and in the end 
cheaper, that I don't think it is worth while paying 
any attention to growing timber for chests. 
And then here is what a Manager in Alla- 
galla or Kadugannawa North h;is to say: — 
1 Wood is the cheapest if you have it good. Steam 
is more easily kept up with coal. 1 have not tried 
•coke. 
2 Goal costs about I'i to 2 cents per lb. tea, wood 
about Ig cent, wood and coal together about li 
cent per lb. made tea. I have worked a Crossley's 
" Otto'' oil engine and found the cost of made tea 
was under one cent per lb. and have been told the 
^' Campbell" 's is about IJ cent. This is cheaper 
than coal or wood. 
3 At present there is plenty of firewood to be had 
from private hands. 
4 In this district I think it is dependent on private 
hands. 
5 Very little is being done in this line, and I think 
it should receive more attention. 
6 It is very doubtful as long as firewood is avail- 
able from private sources at a reasonable rate, there 
■would be no economy in planting fuel trees, but we 
should look to the future. 
7 Grevillea is a fast growing and useful tree and 
makes splendid firewood. 
, 8 Certainly, plant timber trees for building : a 
small clearing of say jak, sapu, grevillea and lunu- 
midella will be found most useful in the future. 
From Lower Hantane a well-known Mana- 
ger reports : — 
1 Wood for driers, wood and coal for engine. 
2 About one cent per lb. made tea. No ; more 
likely to increase 
3 Demand rapidly overtaking supply in this 
district. 
4 No, Government forest in this district — most of 
the fuel bought from villages. 
5 Yes. 
6 When the cost of planting, upkeep, &c., is taken 
into consideration the saving is very little or nothing. 
7 If timber is planted I prefer grevillea, jak, sapu 
and A. decurrens. 
8 Yes, for building, no island timber equal to 
momi or deal for tea chests; would recommend jak and 
aapu for building. 
From Hewi^heta Upper we have a series of 
thoughtful, suggestive replies : — 
1 Whichever fuel is cheapest. In this district 
wood. Personally I think charcoal in chulas, the very 
best way o£ drying tea, but too long and too ex- 
Eensive a procens in the present day. We never 
eard complaints against th« quality and keeping pro- 
perties of Ceylou tea in the old chula days. 
2 Never had occasion here to try coal. Wood is 
cut and delivered at factory for about 50 cents per 
cubic yard. Weight from 500 to 800 lb. per yard. I 
am using old " doon" trees which have been dead 
40 years according to local tradition, some standing, 
some lying down. Most of it sound, bat too worm- 
eaten for timber. 
3 Yes. 
4 In private hands. 
5 Yes, nearly all the estates have grevil'eas or 
" Kucalyptus robusta " planted along the roads and 
aorosa the tea, more, possibly, as wind belts than 
fuel. 
6 No need at present, but doubtless very useful 
ill certain districts. 
7 In this district grevillea and eucalyptus robusta: 
grevilleas up to 4.8(10 or 5,000 feet, eucalyptus ro- 
busta and melanoxylon from 5,000 feet up. 
8 I fear the idea of planting timber for building 
and tea chests is Utopian and apparently grevillea 
and gums not very suitable unless thoroughly sea- 
soned. All the estates in Upper Hewaheta are fairly 
well off for fuel though " building" trees are getting 
very scarce. Rutland estate is using fuel from fuel 
plantations planted some ten years ago. 
Crossing over to Pussellawa we have the 
following report from a Manager : — 
1 Wood alone I consider the best fue!, bnt in this 
district I use coal and coke, the latter in conjunction 
with the wood or coal. 
2 Coal is -95 cents per lb. tea. Wood is '79 cents per 
lb. tea. I am of opinion that the cost is not capable 
of being reduced. 
3 No. In this district, taking it as a whole, in a few 
years wood will be very scarce. 
4 In private hands. 
5 On many estates fuel reserves are largely being 
planted. 
6 Having no Government reserves, this is re- 
torted to. 
7 Grevillea seems to be a fairly quick growing 
tree and is hard ; being, as far as I have seen at this 
elevation, the best for fuel. 
8 I am not in favour of planting timber trees in 
this district under this heading as I consider the soil 
is not good enough to make it a success. 
From Lower Pussellawa, towards Gampola, 
we have this return : — 
1 Never having used, coal or coke, I cannot express 
an opinion. 
2 With regard to wood-fuel I consider that the 
minimum cost per lb. made tea has practically jbeen 
reached and that an increase in price is more than 
probable. 
3 The supply is not eqial to the demand, ex- 
cept in a few favoured cases, where the adjoining 
villages owning small pieces of forest, find it im- 
possible to sell their fuel (owing to transport) exce 
to the adjoining estate. 
4 Exclusively in private hands. 
5 Not the attention it should receive considering 
the importance of the matter. 
6 Most certainly about 5 per cent of the acreage of 
estate should be exclusively for fuel. 
7 If not in immediate want of fuel, grevillea ro- 
bueta, but if a quick-growing fuel tree is required, 
I recommend albizzia moUuccana to be planted. I 
have found albizzia moUuccana planted through the 
tef» at this elevation (? 2,500 ft.) not only useful and 
quick-growing, but beneficial to tea. 
8 No. As regards building timber, although the 
first outlay is slightly heavier, my experience is that 
imported timber is the more economical in the ^nd. 
The same with tea chests. 
A Pundaluoya Manager suggests grevillea 
and toona as the trees to plant and that 
they should also be useful for building pur- 
pcises. 
