94 ENSILAGE IN JRELAND. 

and in the East, where the dairies are less numerous, Omsk and 
Kainsk are the principal centres of production. The manu- 
facture of butter in Siberia is making very great strides, and 
is expected in a few years to be very considerable. Govern- 
ment experts, assisted by imported Danish dairymen, are 
at the head of the Russian dairy movement, both in Siberia 
and in Russia proper. (S7mdr-Tzdende.) 

The returns received by the Registrar-General for Ireland, 
| as in previous years, from proprietors or 
Ensilage occupiers of land throughout that coun- 
inIreland. try, who were reported as having silos or 
otherwise making ensilage show that 85 
silos or stacks of ensilage were enumerated in Ireland in 
1899. The number is considerably below the 114 recorded 
in 1898, but many of the replies stated that no ensilage was 
made during the season of 1899 owing to the weather 
being so favourable for the saving of hay, More than halt 
the silos were in the province of Leinster. 


The total area under woods and plantations in Ireland in 
1899 was 308,495 acres; of which 46,533 
Forestry acres were returned as being under larch, 
inTreland. 36,628 acres under fir or pine, 15,343 
under spruce, 26,604 under oak, 7,392 
under ash, 9,952 under beech, 2,930 under sycamore, 3,303 
un ler elm, 3,764 under other trees, and 156,046 under mixed 
trees. There has been since 1851, on the whole, an increase 
in the total area, amounting to about 3,500 acres, or 12 per 
cent. Particulars of various operations carried out in the 
year ending 30th June, 1899, show that 856 acres were planted 
with trees, while the area returned as cleared was 1,354 
acres, the total number of trees felled amounting to 847,956. 
