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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1740, 22 June 1886, Page 2

South Australia is making good progress with her tree-planting operations. The Ar gut's correspondent trays that during the last eight years; which is the time Mr J. E. Brown has had charge of the forests, the progress made has been wonderful. In the North alone som« 400,000 trees h jive been planted b y f a rrners, who obtain them from the Forest Department, and wh» acknowledge the benefits which the trees afford to their stock and crops. At the Bundaleer ReservA there are 600,000^ trees thriving well, where a few years ago the land was quite bare. The growth of gums and pines is surprising— from I.4ft to 25ft m four^ears is no uncommon circumstance: The total number pt. trees upon the forest reserves planted and indigenous, and . planted by private persons who have received them from the Department, fs estimated at 2,000,000. Private owners have 400,000 of these, and 1,600,000 are the property of the State. The plantations are estimated to lie woith £130,000 at present, and m a few years the yearly revenue will probably be not far short of this amount.