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hardwoods have been used when cheaper and softer timber 

 would answer the same purposes, such as in making fruit cases, 

 for instance. Yesterday I saw the pine plantations at the 

 Kuitpo Forest beyond Clarendon, and the trees were growing 

 splendidly. This country has another advantage in timber- 

 growing — a forest matures in thirty years, whereas it takes 

 sixty years to reach the same stage of maturity in Europe. 

 Then, the Californian pine grows splendidly here, while it will 

 not grow at all in the north of the British Isles. This is a very 

 useful variety of timber for many purposes. The people should 

 realise that practically all the timber now imported from the 

 Baltic, Canada, and Japan can be grown equally well here. 

 And here in Australia, with its 3,000,000 of square miles, there 

 is no lack of elbow room.' 



"The total area reserved for forests in South Australia, on 

 30th June 1914, was 154,232 acres, and, besides gradually 

 adding to the reserves, the Government have established a 

 School of Forestry at the Adelaide University for the scientific 

 training of foresters." 



Home Nursery. 



The advantages of a home nursery are too well known to 

 need much comment. The plants raised in these nurseries 

 are more acclimatised, better rooted, and not so lanky as a rule 

 as plants brought from a public nursery. The public nursery- 

 man aims at securing height at the expense of root formation, 

 and there are generally more failures among them than among 

 the home nursery plants. If carried on in the proper manner the 

 home nursery can be made a most profitable concern, and will 

 quite repay all the trouble taken over it. Geo. Mowat. 



Rubbish in Woods. 



Prunings, decayed and discarded branches, should never 

 be left lying about in young woods, but should be gathered up 

 and burnt. There will then be less insect and fungus disease to 

 contend with, and the young wood will not only be in a more 

 vigorous and healthy condition, but have a mi^ch better appear- 

 ance, and at the same time will sell to more advantage. 



Geo. Mowat. 



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