1 Sepr., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 801: 
CANADIAN FORESTS. 
Tne forests of Canada (says United States Consul-General Billinger, of 
Montreal) cover a total area of 3,315,647 square miles, of which 1,248,798°59 
miles may be classed as woodland, with 37:6 per cent. of wood. In this table of 
area of woodland, 696,952 square miles are credited to the north-west territories, 
and 258,554 square miles to British Columbia. Ontario and Quebec provinces 
have 102,118 and 116,521 square miles, respectively, The quantity of 
pine is estimated at follows :—Ontario, 19,404,000,000 feet B.M.; Quebec, 
15,734,000,000 feet B.M.; and the other provinces, 2,200,000,000 feet B.M.; or a 
total of 37,338,000,000 feet B.M. ‘The annual cut, at a low estimate, is about 
1,000,000,000 feet B.M. British Columbia is said to possess the largest compact 
timber resources in the world; the estimate of the Douglas pine, cedar, spruce, 
Alaska pine, &c., standing in the railway belt amounts to 25,000,000,000 feet 
B.M., worth 25,000,000 dollars. In 1897 Canada exported to the United 
States and to Great Britain manufactured forest eatin to the value of 
1,715,792 dollars; and the total manufactured 
and unmanufactured ig put down 
abt 33,046,329 dollars. In a table of forest areas in various countries, in acres, 
Canada is credited with 799,230,720 acres; Russia with 498,200,000; the 
United States with 450,000,000; India, 140,000,000 acres 
countries are under 50,000,000 acres.— Engineering News. 
; and all other 
FORESTRY IN IRELAND. 
Tue Pastoralists’ Review says:—A very interesting lecture on Irish forestry 
was delivered before the Royal Dublin Society last week. It was shown that 
Ireland had only about 14 per cent. of the land under timber, while Scotland 
had 43 and England 53 per cent. Ireland was far behind England in this 
matter. Of the waste lands of the United Kingdom, 4,000,000 acres in 
England and 2,000,000 acres in Ireland might be planted; these with the 
3,000,000 under timber would give 9,000,000 acres, which should yield an 
income of £20,000,000 per annum if properly managed. Nine million loads of 
timber are imported into the kingdom each year, and this vast sum of money 
might be kept at home if this additional 6,060,000 acres were planted. The suppl 
of timber from the Baltic is decreasing every year; Canada could not be relied 
on asin former years; India had only sufficient for her own requirements ; 
Australia was fast cutting down her natural forests; and altogether things 
pointed to a sure but not too slow scarcity of timber. 
‘FOREST DENUDATION, 
A srrone effort is being made in the United States to check the denudation of 
forests going on there. In four of the great lumber States this is rogressing 
at the rate of 1,700 square miles per annum. Valuable evidence of the effect of 
reckless timber-getting to Australians is offered. in connection with this matter. 
River levels are lowered, lakes dried up, and regional rainfall seriously interfered 
with. 
