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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Weiss Takes New Position 



Howard F. Weiss, Director of the For- 

 est Products Laboratory, at Madison, Wis- 

 consin, has resigned to accept a position 

 with the C. F. Burgess Laboratories 

 (Chemical Engineers), at Madison, and 

 will engage in the development of prod- 

 ucts and processes involving a more profit- 

 able utilization of wood and timber. As 

 director of the largest government labora- 

 tory in the world devoted to the study of 

 wood, Mr. Weiss has had charge of numer- 

 ous investigations in kiln drying, wood pres- 

 ervation, wood distillation, the manufac- 

 ture of pulp and paper, the mechanical 

 testing of timber, and the production of 

 ethyl alcohol, turpentine, etc., which work 

 has thrown him in direct contact with tim- 

 ber problems in the United States, Canada, 

 Cuba and South America. Several of the 

 government publications are written by 

 him, and his book, " The Preservation of 

 Structural Timber," is the most exhaustive 

 written on this subject. 



Thrushes Destroy Insects 

 A study of six species of thrushes by the 

 Biological Survey shows that the economic 

 tendencies of these birds are in keeping 

 with their other desirable qualities. They 

 commit no depredations on crops, and de- 

 stroy large numbers of insects. 



CANADIAN 



DEPARTMENT 



ELLWOOD WILSON, SECRETARY, 



CANADIAN SOCIETY OF 



FOREST ENGINEERS 



Forest Protection for the woodlands of 

 Quebec is making most satisfactory prog- 

 ress. All of the timberland owners in the 

 valley of the upper Ottawa River have 

 decided to join the Lower Ottawa Forest 

 Protective Association. This will bring the 

 territory patrolled by this association up to 

 nearly fifty thousand square miles. Tlie 

 territory will be divided up into districts, 

 each under the control of an inspector. 



On March sixth, at tlie Chateau Fron- 

 tenac, in Quebec, a meeting of the timber- 

 land owners on the south shore of the St. 

 Lawrence River, from a point south of the 

 City of Quebec to the end of the Gaspe 

 Peninsula, was held under the chairman- 

 ship of Ellwood Wilson, President of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association. 

 The question of forming a new protective 

 association for this region was thoroughly 

 discussed, and it was decided to organize. 

 A committee was appointed to draw up a 

 constitution and by-laws. Later in the day 

 this committee reported, and after a deputa- 

 tion had waited on the Minister of Lands 

 and Forests to ascertain his position and 

 what the Government would do to help the 



new association, it was formally organized. 

 Mr. Gerald Power, of the River Ouelle Pulp 

 Company, was elected President, and Mr. 

 Paul G. Owen, who has been for many 

 years Secretary of the Quebec Limit 

 Holders' Association, was made Secretary- 

 Treasurer. The territory of this Associa- 

 tion, which is to be called the Southern St. 

 Lawrence Forest Protective Association, 

 will comprise about twenty thousand square 

 miles and will be divided into two sections, 

 each with a board of five directors, with a 

 vice-president and general manager. The 

 Province of Quebec is now fairly well cov- 

 ered with protective associations, the only 

 important section left out being the Lake 

 St. John Region, and it is hoped that the 

 limit holders in that section will soon fol- 

 low the lead of the rest of the Province. 



Another Forestry Battalion for use in 

 England and France is being recruited in 

 the Province of Quebec by Major H. J. 

 Lyons, of the Canada and Gulf Terminal 

 Railway. His acting chief engineer, Mr. 

 E. S. Holloway, has enlisted as lieutenant. 

 Major Lyons had already enlisted a rail- 

 way construction battalion which is doing 

 good service in France. These construction 

 battalions are employed in France to keep 

 the lines of communication following close 

 up to the first line so that big guns, ammu- 

 nition, men and supplies may be moved up 

 rapidly. 



Dr. Howe, of the University of Toronto, 

 with two technical assistants, will com- 

 mence for the Commission of Conservation 

 and in cooperation with the Laurentide 

 Company, Limited, a survey of the cut-over 

 pulpwood lands. This survey will deter- 

 mine the amount of wood left after logging, 

 the reproduction, rate of growth and prob- 

 able yield of timber after a certain number 

 of years, and will make recommendations 

 as to improved methods of cutting. 



The Belgo-Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Company, Limited, of Shawenegan Falls, 

 Quebec, has decided to commence planting 

 trees on its holdings, making the third 

 large paper company to undertake such re- 

 forestation work. 



The Canadian Forestry Association has 

 just issued a very instructive and attrac- 

 tive little book, " Mon Premier Livre sur 

 la Foret," for distribution to school chil- 

 dren throughout the Province of Quebec. 

 It is most attractively gotten up, is about 

 four and one-half by six inches, and is full 

 of illustrations, showing well and badly 

 managed forests, those undamaged and 

 those damaged by fire, the destruction 

 wrought by bombardments of forest areas 

 in France, lumbering scenes, fire ranging 

 work, erosion and so forth. The text is 

 also exceedingly interesting and the whole 

 book will be of great help in educating the 

 young people about their most important 

 natural resource and its proper care. The 



association has also issued a small folder in 

 both French and English, called the " Pic- 

 ture of Your Enemy," which, on being 

 opened, shows an excellent colored picture 

 of a forest fire and warns everyone to be 

 careful. 



Here, as elsewhere, it is being more and 

 more fully realized that the greatest meas- 

 ure of protection for our forests comes 

 through education. This has been so strik- 

 ingly shown in the work of the St. Maurice 

 Protective Association that further efforts 

 are continually being made to educate and 

 interest the people in this work and to 

 secure the active cooperation of all who 

 live in or near forested sections. 



The new Forest Protective Department 

 of the Province of Ontario is getting well 

 into harness, and has made elaborate plans 

 for good protection during the coming dan- 

 ger season. A fire tax will be imposed on 

 timberland holders and everything possible 

 will be done to give them first-class pro- 

 tection. 



CURRENT 



LITERATURE 



MONTHLY LIST FOR MARCH, 1917 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the 

 library of the United States Forest 

 Service.) 



Forestry as a Whole 



Taylor, Jay L. B. Handbook for rangers 

 and woodsmen. 420 p. il. N. Y J 

 Wiley & sons, 1917. 



Proceedings and reports of associations, 

 forest officers, etc. 



California— State forester. Sixth biennial 

 report, 1915-16. 56 p. il. Sacramento, 

 Cal., 1916. 



Royal Scottish arboricultural society. 

 Transactions, vol. 31, pt. 1. 80 p. Edin- 

 burgh, 1917. 



Forest Botany 



Coker, W. C, and Totten, H. R. The trees 



of North Carolina. 106 p. Chapel Hill, 



W. C. Coker, 1916. 

 Maiden, J. H. A critical revision of the 



genus Eucalyptus, pt. 28. 26 p. pi. 



Sydney, Gov't, printer, 1916. 

 Maiden, J. H. The forest flora of New 



South Wales, pt. 60. 40 p. pi. Sydney, 



Gov't, printer, 1916. 



Silvical Studies of Species 



Sterrett, W. D., and Holmes, J. S. The ash 

 in North Carolina. 8 p. Chapel Hill, 

 N. C, 1917. (North Carolina— Geologi- 

 cal and economic survey. Press Bul- 

 letin no. 156.) 



Forest Protection 



Diseases 



Davey tree expert CO., Ind. When your 

 trees need the tree surgeon. 16 p. il. 

 Kent, Ohio, 1916. 



Long, W. H. Investigations of the rotting 

 of slash in Arkansas. 15 p. Wash., 

 D. C, 1917. (U. S— Dept. of agricul- 

 ture. Bulletin no. 496.) 



