316 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL souRNAL. [1 APRII, 1900. 
that the following generations will naturally reap greater benefit than is 
generation that plants. To this fact may be attributed, in a large measure, , 
amount of indifference to planting by private individuals. Another oe 
that a large section of the community are tenants, which kind of occunaie 
provides no encouragement to improve or beautify by planting. Theresia 
is a work that of necessity is or should beanational one. I notice by the pap am 
that there are 217,189 acres of Crown lands set apart for forestry puree 
some of this, it appears, is unsuitable for trees, and is to be. let 
grazing. During the last twenty-two years, up to 1897-8, about £140, 2 
had been spent, and the returns from the forest lands, in one way and anot i 
had been about £125,000, leaving a balance of expenditure over imcomeé : 
about £15,000. When we consider that most of the planted trees are not ve 
sufficiently grown to be of commercial use, the Forestry Department is one 
the best departments in connection with our public enterprise, and, 10 GOW" | 
in future years only such trees as are suited to soil and climate will be pla2 r é 
thereby saving time and expenditure on unremuneratiye labour. Dumng ; 
last ten years we have imported palings and hardwood to the value of £126; bs 
Probably the colony is capable of growing nearly all the hardwood requt od 
but, unless planting is gone in for extensively, our expenditure on Dae 
timber must yearly increase. How can we increase our forests? I belieY to: 
will be necessary to proclaim large areas of the public estate forest reserves 
be let on lease for grazing and other purposes, subject to resumpuon 
planting purposes as State finances permit. Perhaps it would be a good es 
secure to futurity the blessings of the sinking fund, if it was used for “i 
planting purposes; the preservation of our present State forests ; 
encouragement by local government bodies to assist in getting impassab 
planted, and roadsides especially, where watertables are apt to wash int 
gullies. In many places the land enclosed by our railway fences ¢oU 
planted, providing in years to come sources for railway repairs, &c. How! for 
interest in this subject to be increased? One way, I think, would be 1? vd 
in all centres of population forestry committees, the members of which ¢? an 
deliberate on the best means of forwarding the movement, invite subscripl0Y 
evoke assistance of district councils, solicit the assistance of the church). 
raise funds to beautify our church lands; and make our cemeteries beauty SP fi 
instead of dreary wildernesses, encourage the young by making Arbor oe 
greater importance to them, establishing depéts in every township, where % 
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can be received and trees brought from the Government nurseries at 54 
intervals to fulfil those orders, and last, but not least, good example. 
WOOD-PULP. 
THE utilisation of the waste products of our forests is a question W ip 
have to be considered when the proposed Department of Forestry is Cotes 
Our scrub and forests are full of the leavyings of timber-getters, spite 
and sawyers. This abandoned rafte of timber has all got a money value, phe 
that value might be obtained by converting the waste into wood-pulp- 
United States and Canada are fully alive to this, so also is Germany. ingle 
The Times says on this point :—The extraordinary development of the® bit 
* manufacture of “wood-pulp” which, only a few years ago, was pracle 
unknown, and is now used not only for making paper but for clothing 4. 
immense diversity of other articles, is a sufficient indication of the practs4 
limitless extension of the already widely “varied use of timber.” “ ott Ory on 
is said on the other side of the Atlantic, “ was once called king ; but king (o | 
is a lesser potentate than king timber must soon become.” nest 
All the American papers are full of accounts of the wonderful develo?! pict 
of the industry in that country, and of the constantly increasing uses t0 at 
wood-pulp is now put. It is, in fact, this industry that has brought hom 
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