698 Forestry Quarterly. 



graphy and soil; types of forest; wood uses; lumbering; minor 

 forest products, and relation of the Government to the forests 

 and their products. An appendix contains a list of 34 Philippine 

 woods with a table showing the results of mechanical tests. 



The forest resources of the Islands are conservatively estimated 

 to be 203,264,000 M. ft. B. M. 



The requirement of the local markets for the fiscal year 1909- 

 1910 was 89,000 M. feet B. M. of which 20 million feet were 

 imported from the United States. In addition 246,776 cubic 

 meters of firewood cut from public lands was measured by the 

 Bureau of Forestry and a large additional quantity of wood was 

 extracted for which no record was kept. 



The local markets are rather unstable; the lumber poorly sea- 

 soned and graded and it is generally handled in an inefficient 

 manner. Conditions are rapidly improving and these evils will 

 probably be eliminated largely in a few years because storage yards 

 are becoming more common and some of the large manufacturers 

 are beginning to grade their lumber. 



The average retail price (U. S. currency) of the dipterocarp 

 lumber ranges between $25 to $45 per M.; Yacal $60 to $75; 

 Molave $75 to $100 per M. ; Ipil $75 to $100 per M. Douglas Fir 

 from the Pacific Coast, the chief foreign competitor of the dip- 

 terocarps sells for $25 to $35 per M. 



The greater part of the logging is carried on in a very primitive 

 way, carabao, or water buffalo, usually providing the power for 

 dragging the logs from the stump to tide water. 



Three American firms employ steam logging railroads and yard- 

 ing engines of the type used on the Pacific Coast. 



Although there is a continued increase in the number of steam 

 sawmills in the Islands, the manufacture of lumber by the whip 

 saw is very common in the rural districts. In the larger towns 

 the business of lumber manufacture has been usurped largely by 

 the steam mills. 



The main text closes with a discussion of the methods by 

 which the Government disposes of its raw forest products, prices 

 charged, cutting regulations and the character of assistance offered 

 to lumbermen by the Bureau of Forestry. 



The map accompanying Part I shows the extent of merchantable 



