June i, 1892. J 
THE TROPICAL AQRICULTURIST. 
92 > 
TIMBER, FUEL AXD FOREST 
PRODUCE IN UA'^A. 
From a notioe noder the Forest Ordioanoe which 
has appeared in the Qazette 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 neatly every forest tree indi- 
genous to or naturalized in Oeylon, low country 
and high. We have : — 
At a special rate . . • • . . 1 
First class . . . . . . . . 4 
Second class . . . . • • • • 31 
Third class . . • • . • • • 32 
Fourth class . . . . . . . i 39 
Total . . 127 
The wood specially rated is ebony ; the four placed 
in the first class at R1 per cubic foot are: hal- 
millilla, nedum, satinwood, and tamarind. Amongst 
the 81 in the second class at 60 cents per onbio 
foot, we find doon and bill-doon, bulanbik, jak 
and kina, ns (iron-wood) and palu, sapu, suriya, 
suriyamara, wa and walbnrutu. 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 82 third class 
timbers at 30 cents, the most notable are damba, 
del and waverana. There are also domba and 
dombakina. Amongst the fourth oUss trees valued 
at only 16 cents per cubic foot is the very tree 
which gave its name to the capital of Uva — badnlla. 
In sncceseion we get bombi, bomboo, bo I “ Km- 
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 nelli tree “Netty”? 
Bavan-gedilla must convey a reminiscence of the 
mythical arch-demon of Ceylon, represented aa a 
monster of wickedness, and yet for the slaying of 
whom a god of the Hindu pantheon was sub- 
jected to severe penance 1 Bikattana and Bukattana 
look aa if some tree-namer has been amusing 
himself. In this list there ia 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 notioe that no “Upcountry woods" are in the 
first class, and a note to •* Upcountry woods" states: 
“ 26 per cent extra charged for milla, jak and 
kumbuk." Our planting renders will be specially 
interested in the rates charged for shingles, roued 
timber, fuel-wood, charcoal, bambus and mana grass. 
We quote ae follows : — 
Sbinques. 
B15 to B20’ per 1,000 delivered at the Haputale 
Depot. 
Bound Timber. 
Desoriptiou. 
Jungle sticks, 13 ft. by 18 in. 
oir., per 100... -.- 
Jungle rafters, per 100... 
Jungle waiiehchies, per 1,000 
Jungle stioks, 13 ft. by 18 in. 
oir., per 100... 
Jangle rafters, per 100... 
iluDgle waticbobies, per 1,000 
In the Forest. 
Badulla. Haputale' 
Be. Bo. 
... 15 0 15 0 
.. 12 60 12 50 
... 5 0 6 0 
Delivered at Depot. 
Badulla. Haputale. 
Bo. Be. 
60 0 
30 0 
10 0 
26 0 
20 0 
7 60 
Firewood. 
Badulla DepCt. 
K 0. 
Fer cubic yard, Ist Class... 
... 2 50 
Po 2Qd OlMB.a. 
... 2 0 
Haputale DepAI. 
R. c. 
Fer eubio yard, let Class.,. 
... 1 60 
Do 2ad 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 of Bates op Minob Forest Produce. 
Obarcol. 
B o. 
0 33 
0 SO 
0 10 
Delivered at Badulla Depot, per bushel 
Do Haputale Depot, per bushel 
If burnt by parties in the forest under 
snperviiion, royalty per bushel . , 
Bamboos and Canes. 
Royalty on canes pet 1,000 6 feet in 
length , , . , , , 
Do rattans per 1,000 , , , , 
Do bamboo oreepers per 1,000 
12 feet long 
Illnk and Mana Grasa, Ac. 
To estates for a permit to out and remove 
for 6 months 
To pnblio departments and private pur- 
ohasers other than villagers, per 
1,000 bundles, 2 feet in ciroum- 
ference 
To villagers for their bona JttU use ... 
Permits to oolleot Binkobomba, per cwt. 2 0 
Hrioks sud tiles made from materials obtained from 
Crown forests, at 50 cents per 1,000. All rights to 
collect gsllnnts, birds’ nests, Ac., to be sold yearly, 
Wbat is " Bin-kobomba” ? The " birds' neats," for 
the right of oolleoting which payment is demanded, 
are, of course, the glutinous nests of the cave- 
haunting Bwiftlets, and whioh the Chinese prize 
highly for soup-making purposes, as they do the 
sea-Bluga found along our coasts. 
3 0 
2 60 
2 0 
Free 
THE EASTERN PRODUCE AND ESTATES 
COMPANY, LIMITED. 
Report to be presented at the fifth Oridinary 
general meeting, to be held at Wiochester House, 
Old Broad Street, at 12 o'olook noon on the 28th 
April 1892. 
The directors herewith submit report and balance 
sheet for the year's working, ending December 
Slat 1801. 
The profit for the year, ioolnding £4,672 4s Id, 
brought forward from the last aoeount, amounts to 
£26,608 13s 4d, and, after providing for payment 
of interest on debcotures and dividend on the 
preference sbsrea, there remains a sum of £15,177 
15s lOd to be dealt with in terms of the com- 
pany’s articles of association. As the ibareholders 
are aware, proviaion is there made for the appro- 
priation of piofita, after payment of debenture 
interest and dividend on preference sharea 
first for the oreation and maintenanoe of a re- 
serve fund of £10,000 applicable if required for 
the payment of said interest and dividends ; seoondly, 
for the redemption of debentures to tbe value 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 Mr cent per annum, until 
the debentures shall be rtduoed 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 
debentures out of profite, it is proposed to declare a 
dividend at the rate of IJ per cent per annum frea 
from Inoomo Tax for the year 1891 on the ordinary 
share capital. There will then remain a balanoe of 
7,690 16a 4d, to be carried forward to next year’s 
aoooaata. 
