FORESTRY IN FORMOSA 



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TYPE OF THE HEAD HUNTERS FREQUENTING THE MOUN- 

 TAINS OF FORMOSA AND AGAINST WHOM THE JAPANESE 

 FORESTERS HAVE TO CONTEND. 



elevation of 7,000 feet and using mod- 

 ern methods for cutting and transport- 

 ing the timber. We do not hesitate to 

 declare that this forest produces such 

 trees that both in shape and quality 

 they will hardly find a rival. 



Besides these we have lumbering on a 

 small scale in many other places, in 

 case of fuel trees for the sugar fac- 

 tories and some other kinds of hard- 

 woods for cabinet work, of which the 

 most important trees are : Liboccdrus, 

 Diospyros, Biochofia, Pistacia, etc. 

 One thing which I ought not to omit to 

 mention here is the pulp making from 

 bamboos. We have a great deal of 

 bamboo stand in the central part of the 

 island, and recently a large pulp mill 



has been established for that purpose. 

 This will, I think, be the very first bam- 

 boo pulp mill in the world. 



\Yhile the economic importance of 

 the natural forest is being increased by 

 their exploitation, it is important at the 

 same time that secondary forest should 

 take their place. The necessity, there- 

 fore, of the utilization for this purpose 

 of mountain districts which were left 

 to run wild in the administrative sec- 

 tion of the preservation of the camphor 

 forests, of planting trees in the most 

 needed places as a preventive measure 

 against flying sand, and in order also 

 to maintain the purity of the mountain 

 heads, caused the Government to take 

 over large areas of land for the pur- 



