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 6t'2 K. V. RAN6tA81;FAMI AIIrANOAR export respectively. A csrtl is assumed to the equivalent of half s ton or twenty cubic though in reality eighty.. cubic feet of air-dried be feet, and stsoted firowo would alone make s ton ordinarily. The charges for foiling, billoting and stacking st site range from /t to twenty snnss for s "stack" (the equivalent of .99 cubic feet of green or 80 cubic feet of sir-dried wood) in sdrss forests, and to twosty-four snuss in Trsvsncore. wood is supposed to shrink in cubic feet to 80 cubic feet. assumed equivalent of s ton. The transport by head-load -six A stack of green weeks from 99 A. "stack" is the per mile in Madras districts, and two-annas-and-s-half in Travaneore. An allowance of three to five per cent has to be and in carting. The billets found wastage of wood by per cent. made for wastage in fuel stores or peeling of bark, chipping etc., in in the into sizes experiment to range between depots, owing to frequent handling process of splitting the fit for the oven has been 1 and 15 Where the narket for the fuel-is reached by carts with a merit depots interest their depots, firewood. wear and would reasonable charges, or to on in the case the cost of the outlay for contribution and prsofieslly from the foiling areas, the above elements, together (s) to the establish- .of departmental fuel management, (b) to the weighing machines and (e) to the rent of the give the net cost of Cartage rates vary from place to place. The official ras are an anna-and-s-half to two annas from the place of a further foiling to the earring site would involve expenditure of fou,'to eiglit annas s ton.