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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The owners of summer homes and 

 camps to the north of Montreal in the 

 Laurentian Alountains had a meeting 

 and took steps to form an Association 

 to protect their holdings. The leader 

 of this movement is Mr. R. A. ( Juthet, 

 landscape architect of Montreal, and the 

 members are prominent Montrealers. 

 One of the most enthusiastic members 

 is Mr. Guy Tombs, general passenger 

 agent of the Canadian Northern Rail- 

 way, which has also improved its sys- 

 tem of fire protection along its lines this 

 season. 



other uses something over fourteen 

 miles of line this season. 



Snow fell to the depth of five inches 

 about one hundred miles north of Mont- 

 real on the nineteenth of June. 



The Laurentide Co., Ltd., has en- 

 tered upon a tree-planting program 

 which allows for planting of •■J00,000 

 trees per year. A beginning on a com- 

 mercial scale was made this spring by 

 planting 110,000 Norway spruce, which, 

 up to present writing, have done re- 

 markably well. In li)0<S this company 

 began planting, about 20 acres being 

 planted to white Scotch and jack pine. 

 These trees are now from four to eight 

 feet high. In 1912, 10,000 Scotch pine 

 were planted, and in 1!)13 about 12,000 

 Norway and white spruce; 10,000 Nor- 

 way pine and 00,000 Norway spruce 

 will be planted in September. There 

 are now in the company's nursery some- 

 thing over .-)00,000 seedlings which will 

 be ready for next fall, and the capacity 

 will be kept at about (iOO,000 per annum. 

 This comjiany has also added to its 

 telephone lines for fire protection and 



The St. Maurice Forest Protective 

 Association, with the cooperation and 

 financial assistance of the Department 

 of Lands and Forests and the Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction of the Prov- 

 ince of Quebec, is issuing in French and 

 English a folder, printed in red and 

 black with cuts, for distribution among 

 school children. These folders are, 

 with few changes in the text, the same 

 as those already used in PennsyKania 

 and Masachusetts. 



The Premier of the Province of Que- 

 bec, Sir Lomer Gouin, with Mr. G. C. 

 Piche, Chief of the Forest Service, have 

 just returned from a trip to the Abitibi 

 region, which is being opened for set- 

 tlement. The report of their trip from 

 the standpoint of the forest resources 

 of this district is awaited with interest. 



Mr. Roy L. Campbell has succeeded 

 Mr. R. G. Mclntyre as editor of the 

 Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada. 

 Mr. Campbell is a forestry graduate 

 from the University of Toronto. 



The Forest Products Laboratory, in 

 connection with McGill University, will 

 begin active work in the fall. A com- 

 plete experimental outfit for the grind- 

 ing of pulp, making of sulphite pulp 

 and of paper is being installed. The 

 work will be in charge of Mr. Bates, 

 who has had much experience along 

 these lines. 



A BEQUEST OF $5,000.00 



THE will of the late Miss Eliza- 

 beth Shippen, of Philadeli)hia, 

 bequeaths to the American For- 

 estry Association the sum of 

 So.OOO. This money is given to 

 aid in carrying on the general work of 

 the Association in spreading the doc- 

 trine of sane an 1 j^ractical forest con- 



servation throughout the country, and 

 the bequest was made by Miss Shippen, 

 for many years a member of the Asso- 

 ciation, in recognition of the excellent 

 work it is doing, aiul the great need of 

 expanding the influence and extending 

 the activities of the association. 



