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Indian Forest Records. 
[Vol. III. 
Indian Records of Timber treated with Jodelite. 
In 1908 sleepers treated with Jodelite were laid down at the instiga¬ 
tion of the Forest Department by the Burma Railways near Pyinmana 
together with untreated sleepers of the same species. The results as 
noted on the 1st October 1910 were as follows : — 
SlEEPEBS TBEATED WITH 
Jodelite. 
Untbbatbd 
SLE EPEBS. 
No. 
Species. 
No. of 
sleepers 
treated. 
Date of 
laying in 
open 
line. 
Condi¬ 
tion on 
1st Oct. 
1910. 
I 
No. of 
sleepers. 
Date of 
laying 
in open 
line. 
Condition on 
1st October 1910. 
1 
Dipteroearpus 
tuberculatus. 
10 
Apl. 1908 
Sound . 
10 
15th Apl. 
1907. 
One removed in 
July 1910, one 
doubtful, the rest 
in order. 
2 
Dipteroearpus 
alatus. 
10 
Do. 
Sound 
but 
somewhat 
cracked. 
10 
Do. 
One removed in 
1909, the remainder 
in order. 
3 
Albizzia odor ails- 
sima. 
10 
Do. 
Sound . 
10 
Do. 
One removed in July 
1910, one doubtful, 
the rest in order. 
4 
Homalium tomento- 
sum. 
10 
Do. 
Do. 
10 
Do. 
Eight removed in 
1908-09, one in 
1910, the other 
doubtful. 
5 
Schleichera tri- 
juga. 
10 
| Do. 
Do. 
10 
Do. 
Seven removed in 
July 1910. 
6 
Terminalia beleriea 
10 
1 
j Do. 
Five re¬ 
moved 
in July 
1910, the 
rest in 
order. 
10 
Do. 
All removed in 1909. 
7 
Terminalia tomen- 
tola. 
j 10 
Do. 
' 
Sound . 
10 
Do. 
All sound. 
8 
Lager strosmia 
tomentosa. 
10 
1 Do. 
Do. 
10 
April 1908. 
Niue sound; one 
doubtful. 
These sleepers were again inspected by the writer of this Note in 
February 1911 and found to be in the same condition. 
Another set of experiments was commenced in 1909 at the Forest 
Research Institute. Dehra Dun, in which samples of the twelve species 
of timber were treated by immersion for 15 minutes in a warm solution 
of Jodelite. These were placed upright in the ground together with 
untreated specimens of the same species and sawn from the same logs 
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