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 6?0 K. V. tAN(ASWAMI AIYA1V(At Periyar electric scheme had been carried out,  the saving in fuel alone would have brought salvation to the ever receding forest reserves of not only that district but of distant forests like those on the line which fuel now goes of railway in Travaneore, from as far north as Trichinopoly. The use of heat-saving gas engines may indirectly to diminish in some measure the onr more exhaustible fuel resources. s i8 thanks The last point--and one of the most the education of the tuel-consumer. to the continuance of types of also .help strain on important At present, ovens and fireplaces, which are centuries old, and which were perhaps not harmful in tropical forest struggled life, is leading to much have known cases in which provemerits considerable ages when against each avoidable m&n other small use have in the ovens in reductions in a family's fuel-bill. and the for bare wgte of fuel. I but sensible ira- brought about cheapest and most convenient types to suit local and class requirements have to be thought of, and their use ought to be systematically inculcated by active propagandism. It may even be necessary to alter the traditional shapes and ptterns of our domestic cooking vessels, so as to prevent unnecessary loss of het. Attention to even such trifles will be needed, as domestic consumption is the largest, the most elastic and in some ways the least tractable of our several t Sir Alfred Chatterton and Mr. Tresslet once prepared s valuable note showing the femibility and the advantages of the soheme. See "Appendlees to tim Itcport of the Indim Industrial Commission," p. 117. 9 ! itm informed by Mr. I. (. (hseko, B.ge., A.It.(.8., fitate Oeol in Tmvaneore, that in his experienoe produoergs, s-engines soeml t:) mike the most ooonomio. .u. o! fuel. He pye st spoolfie instalLnee of suoh an engine in Tmvanoo.re whloh oonsnmed oniy 20lbs. of ohstoefl_ per hour to prodnoe 8S h. p.--s e., wbioh converted 83.5 per cent of the svsilsble best into usefni work--s result tsr snperior to any obtained from the most efiloient strom engines. See John Perry's "8barn M amt m af Oil ;tff," 1000; and W. 8. Jevon's "7'b GoaZ udims" (ed. Flax) pp. 186-7. Mr. Ghoko's prodnoer-su*ene is Sir times too? efTioient in eeoaomy of fuel tbfm the most eoonomiosl Mmm enfine ,,eeonling to Jevons,