30 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



future. Articles on insect pests, Australian rusts, manures, 

 analyses of soils, vine growing and wine-making, description of 

 the grasses of New South Wales, and on other subjects too numer- 

 ous to mention here, form the contents of these useful publications, 

 which have their value largely enhanced by the excellent illustra- 

 tions accompanying the same. 



The Agricultural College near Richmond, which was opened 

 last month under the name of the Hawkesbury Agricultural 

 College with Mr. J. L. Thompson as Principal, has already received 

 more applications from young people wishing to enter as students 

 than the present temporary buildings can accommodate, which 

 shows unmistakeably the appreciation of the public of the splendid 

 opportunities thus offered by the Government to obtain for our 

 young men a sound agricultural education, the results of which 

 will no doubt be seen before many years in a great advance in 

 agriculture — an industry of incalculable value to this Country. 



The Forest Department of JUT.S. W. — The Department of Forests 

 which formerly was a branch of the Mining Department, has 

 during last year been re-formed as a separate Department under 

 the Colonial Secretary, the services of Mr. J. Ednie Brown, f.l.s., as 

 Director-General of Forests, (who successfully filled a similar 

 position in South Australia) having been secured. The importance 

 to the Colony of a well managed Forest Department will at once 

 be apparent by the following few facts, with which I have been 

 kindly supplied, and which, I am sure, will be highly satisfactory 

 reading to every well-wisher of this colony : — The number of 

 Forest Reserves is 944, and the area of reserves already proclaimed 

 amounts to 5,579,000 acres, of which there are about four million 

 acres covered with more or less good timber trees. Some 23,000 

 red cedar trees have already been planted. Great efforts are being 

 made to encourage the natural regeneration of the red cedar 

 forests, and already good results have been attained in this direc- 

 tion. Over 10,000 natural grown red cedar plants of various ages 

 and sizes have been properly cleared round and otherwise attended 

 to. 



