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flooring-boards, and veranda mouldings, and turnery, as well as for shipbuilding 
purposes, and especially for breast-hooks and knees. Itis used by wheelwrights 
for cogs, felloes, naves, and spokes, and is also a useful timber for palings and 
staves. It isan excellent timber for paving blocks, and with blackbutt occupies 
the premier place in that line. It does not burn well owing to a liquid 
substance found in its timber which exudes and puts the fire out. The young, 
tall, straight trees make excellent telegraph poles. 
Charcoal made of this timber is very good for blacksmithing purposes. 
Chips of the Tallow-wood steeped in water fora day or more give a blackish 
lye. ; 
The leaves are remarkably rich in yolatile oil, 1 ton of fresh leaves 
yielding 375 oz. of the liquid. 
The gum or “kino” which exudes from the tree contains from 50 to 55 odd 
per cent. of kino-tannin. It is dark coloured, and, asit contains an admixture of 
sour or nauseous principles (free malic or tartaric acid), it is unfitted for medicinal 
purposes. 
The Tallow-wood is one of the best Eucalypts to grow for ornamental 
purposes. It is a rapid grower, and does not take long before it becomes an 
umbrageous shade tree, of shapely appearance, and neat, dark green foliage. It 
commences to produce blossoms at from about five years of age. 
FORESTRY IN JAPAN. 
RepreskntTations are being made urging the Japanese Government to adopt 
the policy of gradually selling the State forests and moors to the people. Ii is 
pointed out some 19,000,000 acres of State forests throughout the Empire 
produce a gross revenue of only about 1,000,000 yen, the cost of collecting which 
is over 600,000 yen, so that the actual revenue received is hardly 400,000 yen. 
On the other hand the 18,250,000 acres owned by private individuals pay taxes 
to the amount of 610,000 yen; so that the people can afford to pay a tax of 50 
per cent. greater than the whole profit obtained from a larger tract of finer 
forests under official management. ‘hough more attention is being paid to 
the preservation of forests, in many places owing to clearings for agricultural 
purposes, enormous trees are cut down, and the difficulty of transport being 
erent as well as very costly, are either burnt where they fall, or preferably left 
lying while cultivation is carried on round them.—Lngineer. 
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WATTLE-GROWING.. 
Wurst wattle cultivation has never been entered upon as an industry in 
Queensland, yet a considerable quantity of the bark is stripped every year from 
trees growing naturally in the bush. "All over the country, and nearly always 
on the poorest soil, the wattle of several varieties grows to perfection, and there 
we many thousands of acres, which will never be utilised for agriculture, but 
which would return a considerable profit if planted with wattles. 
In this connection it will be interesting to vead some remarks on wattle- 
erowing, by Mr. G. C. Newman, at a meeting. of the Lucindale Branch of the 
Agricultural Bureau of South Australia, in August last. Mr. Newman said he 
had great confidence that this could be made one of the most profitable industries 
of. this district, as the soil, climate, and the facilities for delivering the bark at 
a seaport are all that can be desired. He saw part of a plantation east of 
Adelaide stripped, the yield being 4 tons per acre, and enough small wattles 
being left to make another good yield in two or three years’ time. The price 
obtained for the bark was £5 5s. per ton in the field; the price paid for strip- 
ping was £1 5s. per ton, which included cutting the trees down and packing 
them in heaps; the landowner receiving £4 per ton clear, equal to £16 per 
acre. ‘The land was of poor quality, being very stony and sandy. During the 
