826 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



couple of operations was burned broad- forenmners of the system of free dis- 



cast last spring. On tie permits the tribution of trees to farmers for planting 



brush was piled but has not yet been around their homesteads, which has 



burned. An interesting sequence is the now grown to such immense proportions 



keen interest taken by the settlers in under the Dominion Forestry Branch. 



brush disposal and they are now requir- 



ing almost all operators on their lands Mr. J. B. White, Woods Manager 



to pile the brush. This will be a great for the Riordan Pulp and Paper Com- 



help in the future fire situation." pany, has been appointed a member of 



the Forestry Committee of the American 



Professor Adam Shortt, commissioner National Wholesale Limiber Dealers 



for the Civil Service Commission of Association. 

 Canada, has just returned from an 



investigating trip to England where he Mr. Ellwood Wilson, Forester for the 



made a careful study of the English Laurentide Co., Ltd., has been appointed 



system. He reports civil service quite a member of the Standing Committee 



practical and it is to be hoped that on Forest Protection of the American 



the Dominion Government will now Forestry Association, 

 extend it to the outside service of the 



Forestry Branch. The Dominion Gov- One of the forestry projects upon 



ernments might with benefit study this which the Commission of Conservation 



report. is engaged is a survey of the forest 



resources of British Colimibia. This 



This season sees thirty-one students work was started last year and it is 



in the undergraduate classes at the hoped that a fairly definite idea of the 



Laval Forest school in Quebec. Of the forest resources of the province will 



27 graduates all are employed. Eigh- have been secured by the end of next 



teen are in the employ of the Province year. For this work, the Commission 



of Quebec and nine are with other has secured the services of Dr. H. N. 



Governments or in private companies. Whitford, formerly of the Philippine 



It is proposed to have an advisory Forest Service, and of R. D. Craig, for 



committee of three members of the some years with the Dominion Forestry 



Quebec Limit Holder's Association to Branch, and later engaged in private 



help direct the energies of the school. forestry work in British Colimibia. 



The plan of work is to collect, check 



The death of Dr. William Saunders, and compile all available information. 



C. M. G., LL. D., F. R. S. C, for 25 A large percentage of the accessible 

 years Director of Dominion Experi- merchantable timber of the province is 

 mental Farms, will be a great loss to held under timber limits, and for most 

 Canada. He was founder and President of these limits, one or more cruises have 

 for several years of the Ontario Entomo- been made. The limit holders are co- 

 logical Society and for thirteen years operating generously with the Commis- 

 edited the Canadian Entomologist, sion by furnishing information relative 

 Under him the Government established to the amoimt of timber on the individ- 

 five experimental farms. His work in ual limits. In addition a large amount 

 cereal development and in the improve- of detailed information has been secured 

 ment of plums and other native fruits through forest surveys conducted by 

 of western Canada was of great value, the Provincial Forest Branch, and by 

 and to these farms the success of wheat the Forestry Branch of the Canadian 

 growing in the west was in large measure Pacific Railway. All this information 

 due. The arboretum and forest belts at is being used by Messrs. Whitford and 

 the Central Experimental Farm, Ot- Craig, and is supplemented by iniorma- 

 tawa, the plantations at Brandon, tion collected at first hand, as well as 

 Manitoba, and Indian Head, Saskat- by data secured from timber cruisers, 

 chewan, have been a source of inspira- surveyors, explorers and others. Previ- 

 tion and information in farm forestry ous estimates indicate that there is 

 and the western plantings were the something like 300 billion feet of saw 



