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several thousand eucalyptus slips, the requisition being strongly endorse 
General Leonard Wood. The officials in charge of the yellow fever hosp 
planted several slips some months ago, and these are now thriving. 
believed that great good will result from the investigations. ’ te 
Several years ago experiments with the eucalyptus tree were tried here 
result being satisfactory for the first four years, atter which, it is said, te able 
died, but the consensus of opinion among the medical authorities is favou E . 
to a repetition of the experiment, which General Brooke will probably atte 
at an early date on a large scale. 
WOOD PULP. ( 
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Tr is stated that a certain French daily newspaper uses annually the wood po! 
of 120,000 fir trees, averaging 60 feet in height, and equalling the thin 
25,000 acres of forest. he quantity of wood pulp imported into i 
Britain is very large. In June of 1894 21,681 tons were received; 1 ee ont | 
last year the quantity had increased to 27,180 tons—an increase of Ot the | 
In the first six months of the year 146,752 tons were imported, and yeas j 
end of 1896 it is estimated that the gross amount received will amount to ie ai |e 
a quarter of a million tons. Foreign producers compete with each ot ant | 
supplying the English market with the raw material, and enable the Pe | 
manufacturers to successfully compete with foreigners for the manufac 
article. 
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FORESTRY NOTES. 
Ostar Cuntivarroy.—In Germany, upwards of 48,000 acres of swat 7 
land are drained and used for the cultivation of osier willows, and more | 
40,000 people are employed in this work and in basket-weaving. | 
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Axzour Day.—Professor Baccelli, Minister of Public Instruction at Be 7 
Italy, organised the “ Festa degli alberi’” or ‘“‘Tree day,” in order to inst 1 
the minds of Italian children reverence for and a sense of the value ° | 
and to stimulate the replanting of trees throughout Italy. 
Statistics. alg | 
QUEENSLAND PRODUCTS IN BRITISH MARKETS. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PRICES. 
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Burrer.—Choicest colonial, 104s. to 106s. ; finest, 102s. ; choicest 
Zealand, 102s. to 106s. ; Choicest Danish, 124s. per ewt. ie 
Curese.—New Zealand, 58s. to 59s. per cwt.; American, 57s. to 588. 
Suegar.—£14 10s. to £15 per ton; Java, £12 per ton; German beets cif 
per cent., 9s. 3d. to 10s. per cwt. 
Motasses.—ds. to 11s. 6d. per ewt. ; Queensland, none. 
Ricre.—Patna, 14s. to 22s. ; Java, 14s. 6d. to 20s. per cwt. er 
CorrEE.—Finest Coorg peaberry, 82s. to 140s. per ewt.; Ceylon pie | 
tion, 110s. to 120s. per cwt.; bold blue, 28s. 6d. to 80s.; Santos, 338. te 
36s. 73d. 
Arrowroor.—74dd. to 2s. per lb.; Bermuda, 2s. per lb. 
