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has been made to provide a double source of revenue. Mr. Molineux has a 
bundle of plants grown from seed sown twelve months ago, the grass in which 
is 18 inches long, with strong fibrous roots of equal length. As the sand rises 
the marram plants throw out lateral runners, which root and spread with 
amazing rapidity. They have been known to strike through a drift gradually 
accumulating until it was 100 feet over the original level of the roots, all the 
time sending forth laterals until eventually the plant triumphed and stopped 
the drift. The seed heads are borne at the third year, are very prolific, and 
Tun up to 1 foot in length ; but the plant does not always grow readily from 
seed. It is, however, as a rule, cheaper to purchase plants. These are being 
exported from land at Port Fairy planted three years ago, and are being taken 
up at the rate of 10 tons per acre. They are delivered on trucks there at 30s. 
per ton, and large quantities are sent to all parts of the world, but more 
especially the Australian States. South Australian pastoralists and others have 
taken a considerable quantity. The plants have a great vitality, and will strike 
if put in three months after being taken up. They form a coarse fodder for 
cattle. The Port Fairy correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, referring to the 
visit, said that Mr. Tucker, M.P., who accompanied Mr. Molineux, in addressing: 
the local borough council, remarked that he had Bad to see something 
extensive, but the result was ten times greater than he had anticipated. He 
considered the Port Fairy Borough Council was doing a most important 
national work, which was not sufficiently recognised by the Government of 
Victoria, and he thought that if the Government were to make a present of 
1,00 sovereigns to Mr. Avery, the borough ranger, under whose direction the 
work had been performed, they would not be giving him anything more than he 
‘deserved.— Adelaide Observer. 
FORESTRY IN AMERICA. 
The Yale school of Forestry, says Engineering News, has divided its: 
senior class into two sections, and has sent one of these sections to a lumber 
camp in Maine, and another to a similar camp in Pennsylvania. Tach section 
must spend three weeks in studying lumbering methods, and each student must 
report his observations. 
As yet we have no forestry students in Queensland, but if future officials 
of the Forestry Department are to be of practical use they should be chosen 
from men who have, in addition to a book knowledge of forestry, a practical 
knowledge of lumbering, or as we call it in this country, timber-getting in all 
its branches, from saw-mill logs to shingles and laths. 
FORESTRY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
In the Annual Report of the Minister for Agriculture of South Australia, 
stress is laid upon the great necessity and importance of forest-tree cultivation, 
and regret is expressed at the continued decrease in the area of afforested 
land in Australasia generally, and in South Australia particularly. The: 
General Secretary of the Agricultural Bureau says: “ We are convinced that 
this denudation is exercising a most injurious influence on our climatic con- 
ditions. But apart from any consideration in that direction, our supplies of 
timber for fences, bridges, mining purposes, &¢., and for firewood, are 
becoming scarcer every day, and unless yery extensive plantation of forest 
trees is soon commenced, both by the State and by private owners of land, 
we shall surely, in the near future, experience much inconvenience in obtaining 
supplies of hardwood timber and of firewood—the latter difficulty being intensi- 
fied by the absence of conveniently situated coalmines in this State. Our 
farmers should not only be urged, but should be encouraged in every way, to 
