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north side, running the whole length of the area, is the Tellicherry-Manan- 
toddy metalled road. Along this road, the gradients, within and below 
the bamboo area, are nowhere steep, so that loaded carts can be moved 
along it without difficulty. The stream is not really suitable for floating 
bamboos, though it could be utilized for the purpose during the months 
of August, September and October. The Southern India Railway runs 
through Tellicherry, northwards along the coast to Mangalore and south¬ 
wards to Calicut. 
(8) Cost of cutting and extraction. 
It has been mentioned above that bamboos will have to be trans¬ 
ported from the forest to the mill by carts. They will also have to be 
dragged from the forest to the road, a distance which will rarely exceed 
a mile. Under these conditions the cost of landing air-dried bamboos, 
from the centre of the area to Kuttaparamba, works out as follows :— 
B. a. 2 >. 
]U Cos i) of cutting 100 bamboos . . . . .600 
2. ,, ,, carting at 4 annas per mile, over 12 miles, and 
20 bamboos per cart . . . . . 15 0 0 
2. „ „ dragging to road .... .200 
Total . 23 0 0 
The reason why the estimated number of bamboos per cart has been 
put as low as 20 is that the average dry bamboo with nodes weighs as 
much as 63 lbs. so that 20 weigh about J ton which is the capacity of 
cart over a good road. 
(9) Cost of landing air-dried internodes 'per ton at the factory site. 
From Appendix VI it will be seen that the dry nodes make up 16 per 
cent, of the total weight of a dry. bamboo. Now the average weight 
of 100 air-dried bamboos is 6,370 lbs. or 63*7 lbs. per bamboo, of which 
102 lbs. is the weight of the nodes. It, therefore, takes 42 bamboos to 
make up one ton of dry internodes. It costs Rs. 23 to land 100 
such bamboos at the mill, so that one ton of dry internodes will 
cost Rs. 9-10-6 per ton at Kuttaparamba. 
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