Sixty-Second Annual Report of the Government Cinchona Plantations and Factory in Bengal for the year 1923-24

The Committee appointed to advise Goverment reached certain conclusions lately to have a far-reaching effect on the future of the Department as well as on the health of the peoples for whom the Department exists. [...] The scattered nature of much of the cinchona on Munsong makes it difficult to get in the requisite number of sicklings during the rains for the plants spaced as they are give little assistance in keeping down weeds. [...] The average ages of the barks in the above order were 7.5 9.8 9.74 8.28 and 5.22 yews' and the average annual bark increments per acre of the acreages 400 381.8 200 406.3 and 282.7 lbs. [...] provincial Cinchona febrifuge manufactured have been sold leaving all stocks of this product in hand at the end of the year both at the factory and jail the property of the Government of India. [...] 9. Block account.—Excluding the value of extensions which for purposes of the block account are taken at cost price the increase in value of Cinchona trees at the end of the year is Its.