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Roumanian Forests. 



It will be noted that five out of the eight classes of live stock 

 mentioned show a decrease as compared with the year 1900-01 

 The decrease in the number of cows was accompanied by a 

 large falling off in the production of butter, only 4,955,000 lb. 

 being manufactured in 1901-02, as against 5,526,000 lb in the 

 preceding year. On the other hand, the output of cheese, which 

 amounted to 1,053,000 lb., showed a slight advance on the 

 figures for 1900-01. 



The extent of land covered by forests in Roumania amounts 

 to 6,935,000 acres, or about one-sixth the total area of the 

 country. Of this total 2,712,500 acres are 

 Roumanian owned by the State ; 3,732,000 acres by 

 Forests. private individuals ; and 315,000 acres by 



public establishments and communes ; 

 while the remaining 175,500 acres belong to the Crown 

 ■domains. The State forests are in good condition, great 

 •care being exercised in regard to cutting ; but the forests of the 

 peasant proprietors and small holders are said to have been ruined 

 by promiscuous and wholesale cutting. The principal kinds of 

 timber grown are beech, different varieties of oak, pitch pine, 

 and fir ; lime, elm, ash and plane are also produced. 



{Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, No. 2,874.] 



H.M. Consul at Portland, Oregon, reports that there has 

 been a very rapid increase in dairying 

 Dairying* in all the States in his consular district 

 in during the last few years. The farmers of 



Washington. Western Oregon have increased their butter 

 production fully one-third during the year, 

 and Washington has increased in about the same ratio. No 

 less than 62 new creameries and cheese factories were opened 

 during the year, there being now 253 creameries and 37 cheese 

 factories in the latter State. Nearly every farmer who has a 

 fair number of cows has a hand or power cream separator, and 

 most of the farmers do not make butter on the farm, but sell 

 the cream to butter factories. The production of butter and 



