132 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Fes., 1900. | 
EXTRACTION OF TIMBER. be | 
The Government, during 1897-98, worked out about 50,000 tons of teak} 
whilst lessees extracted 257,517 tons, valued at 28,12,660 rupees. ‘The cost 0 
extraction by the Government was 12,18,2 rupees per ton. In addition to this 
14,882 logs containing 8,953 tons of rejected teak—i.e , logs of inferior quality— 
yielded a net revenue, on being made over to contractors on payment of loct! | 
duty rates, or sold on the half-profit principle, of 85,412 rupees. a 
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, 
Receipts during the forest year woo ... 72,09,903 rupees 
Expenditure... 2 ve rr on WIL YASASY 
showing a surplus of 50,81,025 rupees, which exceeded by more than eight 
lakhs* the net revenue of any previous year. 
The proportion of surplus to gross revenue was 69:78 per cent. For the 
financial year the proportion was 70°44: per cent. 
Summarising the results in the Tenasserim circle, Mr. F. B. Manson 
Conservator of Forests, gives the following particulars:—The area of reserve 
forests at the close of 1898 was 4,137 square miles, and the area of new teas 
plantations was 1,464 acres. During the year 15,417 logs or 10,436 tons 
teak and 939 logs or 478 tons of other woods were extracted and brought 1 
depét by Government agency ; whilst under license 26,229 logs of teak ane” 
56,077 tons of other woods were extracted. The gross yield of the Tenasser!™ 
circle was :-—Teak, 37,436 tons; other woods, 57,061 tons; firewood and chal | 
coal, 64,838 tons ; bamboos, 4,168,512 in number ; canes, 13,309,769 in number; | 
and uther minor products of a value of 9,842 rupees, exclusive of estimate? | 
grazing fees. The gross revenue of the circle was 19,78,727 rupees, and the | 
gross expenditure 5,91,270 rupees, leaving a net revenue of 13,87,457 rupee 
or nearly £81,500. si | 
ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION, 
Expenditure on plantations— 
Formation of 1,464 acres... oi ... 14,268 rupees 
Maintenance of 7,675 acres ... ae soy IRL 5, 
28,935 _,, 
The exports of teak from Moulmein and Rangoon during the year 1897; 
1898 reached 273,391 tons, of a value of 23,858,978 rupees, or an average © 
87°27 rupees per ton. 
A vernacular school of forestry is to be established at Tharrawaddy. 
AFFORESTING THE DESERT. 
Tree and shrub planting along the Suez Canal is in progress to protect the 
canal from drifting sand, according to the July bulletin of the Société Inle™ 
nationale a’ Agriculture. Previous trials with fascines, sand fences, &c., hav’ | 
failed, and in 1896 the canal company began the planting of living plant® 
Reeds have been planted along 87 miles of the water line of the canal propa | 
and along the whole length of the Sweetwater Canal; these reeds are at UP 
protected by fascines against the violence of the bank eddies caused by passive 
ships. On the slopes and top of the banks of the Sweetwater Canal plant | 
tions of shrubbery have been set out; the Alfa and <Alriplex halimus bei | 
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* The lakh is 100,000 rupees, and the present value of the gies is about 1s, 2d. On th } 
asis the surplus of 50 lakhs would represent £291,666 13s. 4d.—Ed. 9.4.J, 
