722 Forestry Quarterly. 



cubic feet per acre annually. Contrasted with this small yield he 

 gives a number of results obtained from Eucalypts and pine plan- 

 tations. The pines range from 170 to 341 and the Eucalypts from 

 332 to 533 cubic feet per acre per year. 



At that time the value of timber imported into Cape Colony 

 amounted to from $1,250,000 to $2,500,000 annually. A large 

 percent of this amount was spent for the purchase of railway 

 ties, most of which were Eucalypts from Australia. To avoid 

 this latter outlay the government is laying out tie plantations 

 of Eucalypts, which, it is expected, will ultimately supply the need. 

 Various species of pines as well as of other sorts are also being 

 tried in plantations. In 1903 it was estimated that there were 

 20,000 acres of plantations established, the thinnings from 

 which already bring in sufficient revenue to cover expenditures — 

 before a stick of the main crop is cut. 



The South African Railways Company has also set aside 

 30,000 acres for tree planting and has so far planted 8,000 acres. 



M. E. M. 



From the Report of the South African Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, Vol. I., April, 1903. 



Consul Edwin N. Gunsaulus of Johannes- 



Forestry burg. South Africa, reports that "Outside of 



in the operations of the Forest Department 



South Africa there are practically no forestry operations 



in South Africa. The Government holds 



nearly all the lands of forest value, and the Forest Department 



purchases seeds from abroad and both sells seeds and raises large 



quantities of trees for transplanting, which it sells at low rates to 



the public. The officer in charge of the Forest Department of the 



Union of South Africa is Mr. J. Storr Lister, Chief Conservator 



of Forests, Pretoria, Transvaal. 



"Elementary forestry, enabling students to enter the subordinate 

 grade of the Government forest department, is taught at the 

 Government forest school at Tokai, near Cape Town, Cape 

 Colony, and a course in forestry suitable for farmers is given 

 at the Government agricultural school of Cedara, in Natal 

 Province. Vacancies in the higher grades of the forest service 

 are filled from the South African Rhodes scholars who success- 



