- An average sise bull or cow yields about half s ton of dung-cakes for fuel in the year. ? The number s of the eattie in India may be roughly put down st 100 million and, if a? these eattie produ.e? fuel, (which is not the ease) the total supply from this source will come up to about 50 million tons. On the Malabar Coast eoeoanut shells, cocoanut leaves, and in other parts of South Xndis, the fibrous outer covering of the e(mo&nut .&re. used as fuel. Straw, dried leaves, and twigs and paddy husk are also eelleered by the poorer folk and utilised for cooking and for the preparation of par?il? rice from paddy. The dry fibre juice from the sugarcane ing gul (like the left afttar the expression of (megasse) is used for boil- or sugarcane juice. And improved furn&ee8 Poona s furante) are coming into wide use, as they can utilise the megssse thoroughly, and make gul-boiling independent of other fuel. The only re, magnin 8 sources of the fuel required. to supplement the forest ?upplies are those from trees on roads and avenues, on private garden plots, acacia or babul trees growing on fields, tank bunds and tank beds, and occasionally within even irrigated fields, special fuel plantations, run either by the Oovernment (like the well known (?hangamanga fuel reserve near L?hore in which a plantation ? of Sissee and Mulberry is maintained by irrigation carried on from the Dosb ch?nels, or the Eucalyptus plantations on the Nilgirls), or by private individuals (like the numerous (?asuarina and Korkapulli plantations near. Madras), and trees 1 The ?4 hours. tirerage A,;Mr?ms oow is said to Suoh excrement will however Herry. "Feeeb a,? FeedJ,?". to be made for the sn?Uer and ?,orsefed -t My numbers for the o?ttie in India flsures 8iven in the Morsl trod Msterisi s See P.C. Pstii*s Bulletin on the Poohs ture, Bornbey, 1011). t The Chsnssmsnss plantation h worked void 49 11M of solid ezo?ement in contain muoh w?ter. (Dr. W. A. A sonsi?mbiy lower ? Iz? Indian o&ttie. are mainly on the Ixlsis o! the Profres8 8tstement, 1911-1?, p. 949 Furnace (Dezm?ent of Afrieui- both for timber and for fuel.
