Part ill."] 
Beeson: Beehole Borer of Teak. 
2i 
22. South Toungoo. 
All forests west of the river Sittang yield beeholed timber regularly. 
The percentage of beeholed logs observed during one week’s working in 
Messrs Macgregor & Co.’s Rangoon Mill varied from 12 to 85. The 
forests concerned are of mixed deciduous type in the Pegu Yoma at an 
elevation of 300 to 2,000 feet [D. F. O., Nov. 1913]. In 1900-01 badly 
beeholed timber was extracted from the Pyukun reserve. 
With regard to conditions in plantations in Bondaung Reserve, see 
pp. 92—94. 
23. North Toungoo. 
Beeholed timber was extracted from the Cwethe Reserve in 1895 
[D. F. O., 1905]. 
Beeholed timber turns up occasionally from any one of the reserves 
but no reserve can be said to be worse than another in this respect. 
The Pyonchaung plantations are very full of it [D. F. O., Nov. 1913]. 
For details as to conditions in the Pyonchaung Reserve see pp* 
88—92. 
24. West Salween. 
Of the Sittang forests, in the Kyundaung Reserve the borer is scarce, 
but is more plentiful in the Westwundaung Reserve. The first area is 
hilly and the second is dry plains forest [F. C., Oct., 1913]. 
Messrs T. D. Findlay & Son, Limited, state in 1919. “ The West 
Salween is perhaps freer than the other forests we work, though the 
Mewaing is bad.” The Report on the Forest Administration in Burma 
for 1910-11 states p. 30, para. 42, that “ a bee-hole borer, evidently 
Duomitus ceramicus, is reported as affecting plantations in the Mewaing 
Reserve ” while the report for the following year 1911-12, p. 26, para. 
86, states that the borer “ has not re-appeared in the Mewaing Reserve.” 
Stebbing [1905, p. 15] states that the Sinswe Reserve is badly infested. 
In October, 1919, the D. F. O. mentioned 14 reserves in which the 
borer is believed to be present. Some are on flattish alluvial soil and 
some in distinctly hilly country ; all were fire-protected until a few 
years ago. 
The rainfall in this district is + 150 inches. 
25. Thaungyin. 
The Divisional Forest Officer in 1905 stated that forests on poor soil 
and those annually burnt over are said to contain more beeholed timber 
than others ; and that timber from the Siamese side is more beeholed 
than that from the British side. 
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