156 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Fss., 1898. 
But there is no need to wait fifty years for this result. There are, as 
before said, millions of feet of cedar still standing, which, by judicious 
management, could be made to minister to the requirements of both the 
southern colonies and ourselves for all time, and young trees, growing naturally, 
could be fostered and others planted out year by year as a further contingent 
supply. Hitherto I have only spoken of soft timbers, but I may point out 
that shipments of other classes of timber have been made, notably a consign- 
ment to England by the ‘‘ Lady Douglas’’ in 1879, the results of which are here 
given :— 
Rosewood sold at 
Brigalow 5 20 
Crow’s Ash _,, 
per cubic foot 
. ”? 
” bed 
Wallowewood ' 
SpottedGum,, 
Tronbark js hans; 
This is surely evidence of the direct loss we have sustained in the 
destruction of our brigalow and rosewood scrubs. Every twenty-foot log of 
brigalow burnt by the farmer is actually worth in the London market at least 
£5 12s. 6d., and every rosewood log £6 15s. 
I leave to others to calculate the cost of bringing the timber by rail to 
Brisbane, and of shipping it as dead weight home in the wool ships. They 
may then reckon the cost of burning it off; deduct this from the freight and 
commission, and see if there would not be a new line of industry worth 
carrying on. What myall is worth in the English market I cannot say, but I 
have seen several truckloads of that scented timber at the Roma-street railway 
station destined for the German market. ; 
The exports to Kurope and to the southern colonies of Queensland 
timber during 1895-1896 are in marked contrast to those of 1879. During the 
later period the exports were as follow :— 
Hee Pop S 
WAwowoqgs» 
Description of Timber, Exported to, Feet. rel Feet. Logs. | Value. 
8 
Bean-tree) 0. Gi. asi [Victorians ee As t 27,578 148 
New South Wales “ed, +b ote 4,482 
Cedar ... Victoria yes vee eae pe Tf: 312,591 
South Australia... ) 
Potalen tye ante Fs 320,011 2,114 
New South Wales Ws $r 75,189 
Cedar Victoria ... m5 me a 14,913 
+ South Australia... brs Nee 10,000 
New Guinea... af, ay 620 
Total ... te Bf ... | 100,672 3 863 
Gum... ref se eoet LV iC COLT ome 2iS tite Th 1,488 6 
Myall ... As! sy ... | United Kingdom Vi a3 re 1,332 462 
Victoria ... oN Sy a ae 991 4 
New South Wales Af a0 re 147,702 1,052 
pine ictcriat smite prs oes 780 
South Australia... a ee 5,015 
{ New Guinea... a8 xn 8,180 
New Britain... re its 899 
14,874 i 220 
Silky Oak 4. 5 ... | Victoria ... A nha aye na 41,650 191 
Silky Oak... # ... | Victoria .., on “iyi af 1,085 5G 10 
Miscellaneous Timbers _ va 31,546 338 
Totalese © samen ey ah 116,631 570,293 £5,408 
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