786 The Jotinial of Forestry. 



the end of the mouth. Continue binding fagots and carting lioiue 

 firewood. 



Have all fences round phmtations put in thorough repair, before the 

 ground gets too hard and the stock is turned into the pastures. 



Gravel and roll walks and carriage drives, and hoe and rake beds in 

 pleasure grounds where the ground is dry enough ; also roll grass 

 lawns. 



As all necessary plants will have been removed from the nursery, 

 there will be both time and room for replanting and filling up the 

 ground with young stuff. When plants have been growing for more 

 than two years, it will be necessary to manure, and, if possible, to take 

 a green crop from the ground before planting with young trees. 

 Where space admits dig between the lines of plants, which will not 

 only assist root growth but keep down weeds. 



Lewis Bayne. 



Kinracl Park. 



JouRNALiSTTC COURTESIES. — The following is the dignified manner in which the 

 editor of the CMcafjo Nortli-xue stern Lumhennan replies to an article in the Me- 

 nom inee Herald, supporting certain views in reference to the lumber interests of 

 Ontonagon: — " If the Menominee Herald man imagines that he can induce 

 the Lumberman to give him a free advertisement for his various slurring and 

 sometimes lying paragraphs, he is mistaken. The game is too insignificant." 

 Now we are quite sure that if we are the editor of a " country local paper," 

 we are judge enough of lumber to know the kind of a log the editor of the 

 Liunhermrm was sawed out of — hollow, punky, shaky, and ro{te7i." — Ontonagon 

 Heredd. 



Forestry in the Punjaub. — We learn from the Indian Agriculturist that the 

 Chunga-]\Iunga plantation in the Punjaub, which has an area of 7,O00|acre8, was 

 commenced in 1865, and contains chiei\y Indian hlackwood (Daliiergia sissoo). 

 The expenditure up to the end of 1873 was_£26,O00, including £5,000 spent 

 during the first five years in unsuccessful experiments ; £5,000 had been re- 

 ceived from petty thinnings (firewood and minor produce, grazing dues, &c.). 

 From a careful valuation and calculations made in 1873, it is estimated that 

 the expenditure up to 1881, when the capital account closes, will be £97,000, 

 and the value of the plantation will be then £170,000. The annual rainfall in 

 he district is under 15 inches, with great heat in summer and sharp frosts in 

 winter. The whole plantation has to be irrigated from a neighbouring canal, 

 being debited with a charge of 4s. per acre per annum for the use of water 

 alone. The land on which the plantation stands was formerly almost value- 

 less, and would not fetch an annual rental of 2s. per acre, but now 12s. and 

 even 20s. per acre is obtainable. The rents mentioned include the water-rate 

 of 4s. per acre per annum. This plantation is intended eventually to cover 

 30,000 acres, and will undoubtedly prove a great si;ccess as regards direct finan- 

 cial profit, a supply of timber or firewood improving the soil, and rendering it 

 fit for cultivation, and ameliorating the climate. 



