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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Honorable H. C. Brewster, the newly 

 elected Premier of British Columbia, has 

 come out flat-footed for civil service princi- 

 ples and the merit system and deserves the 

 highest praise and the congratulations of all 

 good citizens, on his stand. In replying to a 

 letter from the Forestry Association ask- 

 ing him to apply civil service principles to 

 the Forestry Branch, he says, " I note also 

 your intimation that efficient service could 

 be secured best by the entire elimination of 

 the patronage system from the Forest Ser- 

 vice. It will be the intention of the new 

 Government to abolish the evils of the pat- 

 ronage system, wherever these have been 

 in evidence, and the Forestry Service will, 

 in no sense, be an exception to this rule." 



The membership of the Canadian For- 

 estry Association has increased by 750 new 

 members since last January and its influence 

 and record of accomplishment are con- 

 stantly growing. The Secretary, Mr. Rob- 

 son Black, has done most excellent work and 

 his fall lecture tour has been most success- 

 ful. He is now sending a French-speaking 

 lecturer through the eastern townships 

 of Quebec and he expects to hold a 

 local meeting of the Forestry Association 

 at Sherbrooke. 



The appearance of the white pine blister 

 rust in Canada is causing much anxiety and 

 the Forestry Association will urge Domin- 

 ion action to check it. It is reported that 

 the splendid pine forest planted some forty 

 years ago by the monks at Oka has become 

 infected. 



Every year as soon as the snow comes it is 

 the custom and the law that the roads must 

 be marked by trees or poles to show where 

 the road is. The snow becomes so deep and 

 it is so difficult to find the track after a 

 heavy snow or at night that were it not for 

 these guide posts the horses would get off 

 the roads and might not be able to get back. 

 Then too, the roads are all single track and 

 it is necessary to mark the turnouts so that 

 teams coming from opposite directions may 

 arrange where to pass. It has always been 

 customary to use small spruce and balsam 

 trees for this purpose but it is such a wanton 

 waste that a movement is on foot to compel 

 the use of alder, birch and poplar and such 

 species as are of practically no value. 



Mr. Piche, Chief Forester of Quebec, 

 has made some very interesting studies 

 during the past summer on cut-over lands 

 of the River Ouelle Pulp and Paper Com- 

 pany, and has laid out some experiments in 

 cutting to be undertaken by them next year. 

 This coming summer he will make some 

 studies on the cut-over lands of the I.auren- 

 tide Company, Limited, to determine the 

 probable future cut possible. 



The Dominion Government Forest Branch 

 have inserted a clause in their cutting con- 

 tracts requiring the piling and burning of 

 brush, and the Department of Indian .\ffairs 



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has done the same thing but it is said will 

 make some concession in the way of stump- 

 age reduction to help cover the extra cost. 



The Honorable Thomas DufFerin Pat- 

 tuUo has been chosen as Minister of Lands 

 in the new administration formed by the 

 Honorable H. C. Brewster. Mr. PattuUo 

 represents the District of Prince Rupert in 

 the provincial legislature, a section of the 

 country containing considerable forest 

 resources. 



The appointment is announced of Messrs. 



F. A. Sabbaton, Laurentide Company, Ltd., 

 representing the paper industry : Mr. Thorn, 

 Riordon Paper Company. Ltd., the sulphite 

 pulp industry ; Mr. Hellin. of the Waya- 

 ganiac Pulp and Paper Company, Ltd., the 

 sulphate and soda pulp industry ; and Mr. 



G. F. Duncan, the Provincial Paper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., the high grade paper industry, 

 as an advisory committee to co-operate with 

 the Forest Products Laboratories. 



CURRENT LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR DECEMBER, 1916 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 



library of the United States Forest 



Service.) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Stebbing, Edward Percy. British forestry ; 

 its present position and outlook after 

 the war. 257 p. pi. London, John 

 Murray, 1916. 



Proceedings and reports of associations, 

 forest officers, etc. 



Queensland — Department of public lands. 

 Annual report of the director of forests 

 for the year 1915. 8 p. Brisbane, 1916. 



United States — Department of agriculture — 

 Forest service. Report of the forester, 

 1916. 36 p. Wash., D. C, 1916. 

 Forest Botany 



Stuckey, H. P. The two groups of varieties 

 of the Hicoria pecan and their relation 

 to self -sterility. 22 p. il. Experi- 

 ment, Ga., 1916. (Georgia •■Agricultural 

 experiment station. Bulletin No. 124.) 

 Forest Ecology 



Boerker, Richard Hans. Ecological inves- 

 tigations upon the germination and 

 early growth of forest trees. 89 p. 

 il. pi. Lincoln, Nebr.. 1916. 



Studies of Species 



Kapper, O. G. Kratkaya kharakteristika 

 lyesovodstvennuikh svoistv, otdyel'nuikh 

 lyesnuikh porod (brief silvical char- 

 acteristics of forest trees ; a reference 

 table). 42 p. Bobrov, 1915. 

 Silviculture 



Jolyet, Antoine. Traite pratique de sylvi 

 culture. 2d ed. 724 p. il. Paris, J. B. 

 Bailliere et fils, 1916. 



Forest Protection 



Insects 



Minnesota — State entomologist. Special 

 report ; work on the white pine blister 

 rust in Minnesota, 1916. 19 p. il. pi. 

 St. Anthony Park. Minn., 1916. (Circu- 

 lar No. 40.) 



Diseases 



Babcock, D. C. Diseases of forest and 

 shade trees. 13 p. il. Wooster, 1916. 



Cook, Melville Thurston, and Wilson, Guy 

 West. The influence of the tannin con- 

 tent of the host plant on Endothia para- 

 sitica and related species. 47 p. New 

 Brunswick, N. J., 1916. (N. J.— Agricul- 

 tural experiment station. Bulletin 291.) 



