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5,461 lbs. of dry internodes per acre. The area of the forests is 113,600 
acres, so that the total yield works out to 617,420,660 lbs. or 275,143 
tons. By cutting over the area in five years the sustained yield works out 
to 55,028 tons of dry internodes per annum. The total may be raised 
15 per cent, if the nodes are taken into account. 
(7) Lines of export. 
(i) To Bomanhalli .—The area is well supplied with roads. The 
Alnawar-Kadra main road runs through Bomanhalli. Block XIII is 
tapped by the Yellapur main road, 13 miles being the distance from the 
centre of the area to the factory site. Blocks XIV and XV are tapped by 
feeder roads, giving on to main road, a distance of 15 miles from 
Bomanhalli. The bamboos in blocks XVI, XVIII and XXIII will 
have to be carted over the Yellapur-Alnawar main roads, an average 
distance of 31 miles. 
(ii) To Hubli .—Were Hubli taken as the site for the factory, the 
bamboos from blocks XIII, XIV and XV would have to be carted 
over the Yellapur-Hubli main road, a distance of 30 miles ; those 
from blocks XVI, XVIII and XXIII by the Sirsi-Hubli main road, a 
distance of 40 miles. 
The average distance of carting, therefore, works out to 18 miles in 
the case of Bomanhalli and 35 miles in the case of Hubli. 
(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
The cost of cutting 100 bamboos is put at Rs. 5, that is, one rupee less 
than was the case below the Ghats. The reason for this is that the culms 
are not so large in this locality as they are in the Karwar and Ankola 
forests. A cart can take 1,200 lbs. of bamboos. One hundred dry bamboos 
weigh 3,720 lbs. (see Appendix V), therefore 100 bamboos furnish three 
cart-loads. The cost of carting is 2J annas per mile, therefore the 
cost of carting 100 dry bamboos to Bomanhalli, an average distance of 
18 miles, comes to Rs. 8-7 and to Hubli, an average distance of 
35 miles, Rs. 16-6 per 100. 
(9) Cost of landing air-dried internodes fer ton at the factory site. 
The cost of landing dry internodes at Bomanhalli, therefore, works 
out to Rs. 8-6 per ton and at Hubli at Rs. 13-1 per ton. Were the nodes 
to be taken into account, the rate would be reduced by 15 per cent. 
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