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soaked with the poison it was pushed by means of a stick 

 as far as possible into the burrow, and all openings were 

 immediately closed with soil or snow. In large burrows it 

 is desirable to supply a double dose of the poison. 



It was found that there were certain advantages 

 associated with undertaking the work during snow. Under 

 such circumstances it is easy to see which burrows are 

 inhabited, and snow is a more convenient material than soil 

 with which to stop the openings of the burrows. 



The cost for carbon bisulphide and sacking was found 

 to amount to about a half-penny per burrow. The outlay 

 for labour varied so much with the character of the ground, 

 the abundance ol the burrows, etc., that it is difficult to 

 venture on an estimate. 



Forestry in Russia. 



Professor Schwappach of the Forest School of Eberswalde, in 

 Prussia, last autumn undertook., on the invitation of the 

 Director of Russian State Forests, an extensive tour of 

 inspection of Russian forests, and his report has recently 

 appeared in the Zeit. fur Forst-und Jagd-Wesen. 



The total extent of the forests of Russia in Europe, 

 including Finland, is put at more than five hundred million 

 acres, or 33 per cent, of the total surface of the country. The 

 distribution of the forests is extremely unequal. In the north 

 there are wide regions that show no more than 10 per cent, of 

 interruption in the wooded surface, whereas in the south the 

 percentage of forest land is hardly greater than in this country, 

 and on the Steppes it is even less. Of the total forest area the 

 State owns considerably more than half, the great landlords 

 about a quarter, and the peasants, communes, etc., the 

 remainder. 



In the north the prevailing species are Scots pine and spruce, 

 while birch and aspen are of subordinate importance, though 

 these are much in evidence along the lines of railway, where 



