Russian Exports of Poultry, Etc. 



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I >399>ooo acres were trees over 100 years old, 1,448,000 acres of 

 81 — 1 00 years, 2,102,000 acres of 61 — 80 years, 3,137,000 acres of 

 41 — 60 years, 3,652,000 acres of 21 — 40, and 3,641,000 acres 

 under 20 years old. There were also 230,000 acres of under- 

 stocked areas, and 306,000 acres of bare ground. 



Returns of production were required from each proprietor for 

 the year ending 1st June, 1900. The total yield of wood 

 was 861,036,000 cubic feet. Of this 637,648,000 cubic feet was 

 solid wood (341,184,000 cubic feet serviceable timber and 

 296,464,000 cubic feet firewood) and 223,388,000 cubic feet of 

 stumps and branches. The oak coppice gave 2,709,000 cubic 

 feet (weighing 47 lb. per cubic foot) of oak bark ; the osier beds 

 3,408,000 cubic feet (weighing 38 lb. per cubic foot) of willow 

 rods, and 1,810,000 cubic feet of other wood. Adding all these 

 items together the total production amounts to 868,963,000 

 cubic feet, or 43 cubic feet per acre of the total forest area. 



Russian Exports of Poultry, Game, Eggs and Meat. 



The Board have recently received from the Foreign Office a 

 copy of a despatch supplied by Mr. Henry Cooke, PI.M. Com- 

 mercial Agent at Moscow, on the subject of the export of game, 

 poultry and eggs from Russia to Great Britain. Mr. Cooke 

 refers in the first place to a report made by Prince Stcherbatoff, 

 President of the Moscow Imperial Agricultural Society, who 

 alluded to the arrangements made for the construction of chilling 

 and cold storage premises to take 500 tons of game and poultry, 

 and for separate premises for a similar quantity of eggs. Special 

 refrigerated trucks, &c, for the journey to Libau from the 

 interior of Russia are also projected. In addition to these 

 measures, Russian traders have applied for credit from the State 

 Bank to enable them successfully to compete for the British 

 market. The possible supplies of the above products from the 

 south of Russia are said to be illimitable. 



The quantity of eggs received from Russia has, as will be seen 

 from the following Table, increased in recent years both abso- 

 lutely and relatively, Russia now contributing about 26 per cent. 



