June i, 1892.] 
THE TRdWCAL AQRI0ULTURI8T. 
927 
TIMBEE, FUEL AND FOREST 
PRODUCE IN UVA. 
From a notice ander the Forest Ordinance which 
has appeared in the Gazette showing the rates of 
rojalty on various enumerated timbers in Uva, 
we should judge that this Province of low and 
high altitudes and warm and cool climates must 
grow altogether or very nearly every forest tree indi- 
genous to or naturalized in Ceylon, low country 
and high. We have : — 
At a special rate . . • • • • 1 
First class • • • • • • • • ^ 
Second class . . . . • • • • «1 
Third class . . . • • • • • 32 
Fourth class . . . . • • • • 59 
Total . . 127 
The wood specially rated is ebony ; the four placed 
in the first class at Rl per cubic foot are: hal- 
millilla, nedum, satinwood, and tamarind. Amongst 
the 31 in the second class at 50 cents per cubic 
foot, we find doon and hill-doon, hulanhik, jak 
and' kina, na (iron-wood) and palu, sapu, suriya, 
Buriyamara, wa and walburutu. This last is gene- 
rally known as wild or jungle satinwood. We 
are somewhat surprised to find this wood and 
sapu ranked second class. Of the 32 third class 
timbers at 30 cents, the most notable aie damba, 
del and waverana. There are also domba and 
dombakina. Amongst the fourth class tress valued 
at only 15 cents per cubic foot is the very tree 
which gave its name to the capital of Uva — baduUa. 
In succession we get bombi, bomboo, bo 1 " Em- 
berella" must, of course, be a corruption of the 
word "umbrella," itself connected with umbrageous? 
In this category there is a wal-kina, but who is 
responsible for spelling the nelh tree "Nelly"? 
Ravan-gedilla must convey a reminiscence of the 
mythical arch-demon of Ceylon, represented as a 
monster of wickedness, and yet for the slaying of 
whom a god of the Hindu pantheon was sub- 
jected to severe penance I Bikattana and Bukattana 
look as if some tree-namer has been amusing 
himself. In this list there is a wal-jambu, one 
of the eugenias, of course, but what its affinity 
to the cultivated jambu may be we do not know. 
But we do know that but a percentage of the 127 
timbers enumerated in the Uva list are used by 
the native carpenters, who are, like all orientalists, 
very conservative. In the rates for sawn timber 
we notice that no "Upoountry woods" are in the 
first class, and a note to •' Upcountry woods" states: 
" 36 per cent extra charged for milla, jak and 
kumbuk." Our planting readers will be specially 
in-terested in the rates charged for shingles, round 
timber, fuel-wood, charcoal, bambus and mana grass. 
We quote as follows : — 
Shinoles. 
B15 to B202 per 1,000 delivered at the Haputsle 
Depot. 
Bound Tiubeb. 
In the Foreit. 
Description. Badulla. Haputale' 
R c. Bo. 
Jangle sticks, 13 ft. by 18 in. 
cir., per 100 ... 15 0 15 0 
Jungle thUott, per 100... .. 12 50 12 50 
Jangle wariohohiea, per 1,000 ... 5 0 5 0 
Delivered at Depot. 
Badalla. Hapntale. 
R 0. K c. 
Jangle sticks, 13 ft. by 18 in. 
Dir.. per 100 ... GO 0 25 0 
Jungle rafters, per 100... ... 80 0 20 0 
JuDglo w»richohieB, per 1,000 ... 10 0 7 60 
Firewood. 
Badulla Depot. 
R o. 
... 2 50 
... 2 0 
Per cubic yard, 1st Class... 
Do 2nd Class... 
Haputale Depdt. 
R. c. 
Per cubic yard, Ist Class... ... l 50 
Do 2nd Class... ... 1 0 
Delivered to parties in the forest if felled and re- 
moved by them, from 62 cents to 76 cents, according 
to distance. 
Schedule op Bates op Minor Foeest Prodxjce, 
Charcol. 
R 0. 
Delivered nt Badalla Depot, per bnshel 0 33 
Do Haputale Depot, per bushel 0 30 
If bnrnt by parties in the forest under 
supervision, royalty per bnehel . . 0 10 
Bamboos and Canes. 
Royalty ou canea per 1,000 6 feet in 
length 5 0 
Do rattans per 1,000 . . , . 4 0 
Do bamboo creepers per 1,000 
12 feet loDg 3 0 
lllak and Mana Grass, &c. 
To estates for a permit to cut and remove 
for 6 months 2 50 
To public departments and private par- 
chasers other than villagers, per 
1,000 bundles, 2 feet in circum- 
ference . . . . . . . . 2 0 
To villagers for their bona fide use ... Free 
Permits to colleot Biokobomba, per cwt. 2 0 
Brisks and tiles made from materials obtained from 
Crown forests, at 50 cents per 1,000. All rights to 
collect gallnuts, birds' nests, &c., to be sold yearly. 
What is " Bin-kohomba" ? The " birds' nests," for 
the right of collecting which payment is demanded, 
are, of course, the glutinous nests of the cave- 
haunting Bwiftlets, and which the Obinese prize 
highly for soup-making purposes, as they do the 
sea-slugs found along our coasts. 
THE EASTERN PRODUCE AND ESTATES 
COMPANY, LIMITED. 
Report to be presented at the fifth Oridinary 
general meeting, to be held at Winchester House, 
Old Broad Street^ at 12 o'clock noon on the 28th 
April 1892. 
The directors herewith submit report and balance 
sheet for the year's working, ending December 
3l6t 1891. 
The profit for the year, ineluding £4,672 4s Id, 
brought forward from the last account, amounts to 
£26,608 133 4d, and, after providing for payment 
of interest on debentares and dividend on tho 
preference shares, there remains a sum of £15,177 
158 lOd to be dealt with in terms of the com- 
pany's articles of association. As the shareholders 
are aware, provision is there made for the appro- 
priation of profits, after payment of debenture 
interest and dividend on preference shares : — 
first for the creation and maintenance of a re- 
serve fund of £10,000 applicable if required for 
the payment of said interest and dividends ; secondly, 
for the redemption of debentures to the valae of 
£3,000 each year, and thereafter for the payment 
of a dividend on the ordinary shares, not to ex- 
ceed the rate of three per cent per annum, nntil 
the debentures shall be reduced below £50,000. 
Any surplus profits after payment of dividend at 
that rate to be applied in further redemption of 
debentures. 
Having set aside £3,000 as required for payment of 
debentares out of profits, it is proposed to declare a 
dividend at the rate of 1| per cent per annnm, free 
from Income Tax for the year 1891 on the ordinary 
share capital. There will then remain a balance of 
7,690 15b 4d, to be carried forward to next year's 
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