article under review, might not possess the same amount of interest 

 for our readers, and likewise the information regarding the prices 

 fixed between the Government and the selling agency for the various 

 kinds of camphor. 



Elsewhere *) the yield of camphor and camphor oil in the five 

 Japanese camphor offices is estimated (but without mentioning the source 

 of the information), for the year 1906 at 776743 and 842782 kin 

 respectively, against 600347 and 652562 kin respectively in 1905. 

 In Formosa the production in the years 1903 to 1905 was as follows: 

 camphor: 3720263,3389723,2809190 km; camphor oil: 2690229, 

 2720272, and 2544261 kin. The total export (of camphor and 

 oil?) from Japan and Formosa in the last two years was: in 1905 

 5207244 kin, value 5316910 yen; in 1906 5544257 kin, value 

 5367510 yen. 



In view of the continued decline of the Japanese and Formosan 

 camphor production 2 ), the Japanese Government appears to be making 

 very serious efforts to improve the camphor cultivation, both in Japan 

 and in Formosa. The Vice-Minister of Finance Mizumachi stated, 

 according to a Japanese report 3 ), at a conference in Tokyo with various 

 officials of the Camphor Office, that the large sum granted by the 

 Japanese Parliament for the forestry bounty, w r ould be used exclusively 

 for camphor plantations, and further, that the Government intended 

 increasing the supplies and shipments in proportion to the demand, 

 and meeting the wishes of the trade. For this purpose the commissioners 

 had been sent last year to Europe and America. 



A leading article in The Chemist and Druggist^) gives further details 

 on the extent of the proposed reafforestation. In the principal district 

 of Japan there are available a total of 206300 cho (1 cho = 2,45 acres) 

 private lands, on which it is hoped to plant 361 470000 trees; and also 

 625310 cho Government land with.a possible amount ofi 176810 000 trees. 

 From this is calculated a yield of 1 o 844 1 00 kin camphor, and 4337640 kin 

 camphor oil. Naturally, the whole of the 200000 cho cannot be planted 

 over in one year (in the two years 1904/1905 8734000 trees were 

 planted out), and this would be carried out in ten years; but already 

 in the fifth year after planting, a yield of 1 084410 kin camphor 

 and 433 764 kin oil for every year's growth are hoped for. If the 

 Government should succeed in inducing the owners of these private 

 lands to plant them over with camphor trees, it would be possible after 

 fifteen years to produce the above-mentioned 10 million kin camphor. 



x ) Chemist and Druggist 70 (1907), 815. 



2 ) Comp. Report April 1907, 18. 



3 ) Oriental Druggist 1 (1907), No. 14 (June). 



4 ) Chemist and Druggist 70 (1907), 834. 



