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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Note i*o tfcca HI iliis ro* nnsbinK. Compare 

 size and appearance of trees wiih those at the right. 

 pUiiied lu blobted beds — drawn fiom fhotoirapn. 



in BLASTED 



'* [ found th:it trees planted in beds lilasted with 

 Atlas Farm Powder did twice as well as luose in 

 spade-dug holes," writes J. J. Funk, Webb City, Mo. 

 " 1200 trees and 400 grape vines planted in blasted 

 beds grew more in a year than others in spade-dug 

 holes had grown in three years," writes F. M. 

 Reeder, Charles Co., Md. 



Any one can blast beds for trees with Atlas Farm 

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about ti) commence the erection of a large 

 paper mill at Three Rivers, Quebec. It is 

 said that they will spend about six tnillioii 

 dollars. This addition to the mills in this 

 valley will make it one of the most im- 

 portant paper producing sections in the 

 country, and will be a great addition to the 

 industries already operating in Three 



Rivers. 



A delegation consisting of Sir Williain 

 Price, Brig.-Gen. J. B. White. D. S. O., 

 and Ellvvood Wilson, with other members 

 still to be announced, went to Ottawa on 

 March i8 to impress upon the government 

 the necessity of using returned soldiers for 

 reforestation work. In the opinion of Gen- 

 eral White, there is no other work so well 

 suited to those men who have been gassed 

 or shell shocked. He estimates that there 

 are about fifteen hundred such men to be 

 cared for. The Dominion and Provincial 

 Governments have large areas of lands 

 which could be planted and also nurseries 

 from which stock could be sui)plied. 



The general opinion of all those who 

 have observed its results, is that in the 



forests of eastern Canada, the diameter 

 limit has been worse than a failure. Its 

 effect has been to take out the best trees 

 and leave all the poor ones. It was always 

 supposed that the smaller trees left would 

 grow and produce a second crop but it has 

 been definitely proved that most of these 

 are suppressed trees which rarely take on 

 any new growth after the removal of the 

 larger ones and then only after some time. 

 If the stand is opened up appreciably almost 

 all of them blow down. The removal of tlie 

 spruce has encouraged the reproduction of 

 balsain and now that the balsam is beini; 

 heavily cut the forests are rapidly becoming 

 almost pure hardwood stands. It is hoped 

 that some other method of regulating cut- 

 ting in our forests will be develo|)ed. The 

 Quebec Government already has made ar- 

 rangements by which a license holder can 

 ask to have a forester examine the land 

 he wishes to cut. and if in the forester's 

 opinion, some other method of cutting than 

 that laid down in the regulations would be 

 better, he may give permission. This is 

 certainly a step in the right direction. 



FORESTRY FOR BOVS AND GIRLS 



(Continued from I'ayc 1007) 



trees, but some species are able to stand 

 much more shade than others. Those with 

 a dense, heavy foliage — that is those that 

 make good shade trees — can stand more 

 shade than those with less dense foliage. 

 The sugar maple is a very good example 

 of the former and the ash of the latter. 



Consequently, when these two species, 

 the sugar maple and the ash, happen to 

 grow side by side, the light shade of the 

 ash has very little effect on the growth of 

 the sugar maple, while the dense foliage 

 of the sugar maple is almost sure to clean 

 all the limbs off of the near side of the 

 sensitive ash. 



QUESTIONS FOR NEXT MONTH 



(!) In a dense stand of basswood, maple 

 and hickory, what siiecies of young growth 

 do you find ? 



(2) What hardwood tree has a bud with 

 a decided huinp on the side of it? 



WHAT THEY SAY 



"I have read with great satisfaction the 

 article by Dr. Shufeldt in .American For- 

 estry on budding leaves. The fringe tree 

 especially interested me. Thank you for 

 giving me so much pleasure in these cruel 

 days." — Dan F. Bradley. 



"We are now furnishing your magazine 

 to one of our Log Camps, and two of the 

 individuals of our company are also sub- 

 scribers. This is a good magazine and we 

 get a good deal of pleasure from reading 

 it. — P. R. Caray, Vice-President Camp 

 Manufacturing Company. 



"I have been greatly attracted by your 

 series of articles and the excellent photo- 

 graphic illustrations in .Americ.vn Fores- 

 try." — Homer D. House, .'Vugust 15, 1918. 



"Let me thank you for having sent to me 

 the copy of American Forestry containing 

 Dr. Shufeldt's charming article on pictures 

 and plants for Christmas. It always does 

 me good to read things like this." — li'nlde- 

 nuir Kaempffert. 



TRAINING COURSES IN WOOD IN- 

 SPECTION 

 'T'HE inspection of wood has played a 

 greater part in the manufacture of 

 aircraft than in any other important in- 

 dustry and at the beginning of the war 

 the number of men qualified for this work 

 was very limited. The Forest Products 

 Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin, pre- 

 pared a handbook for inspectors and con- 

 ducted short training courses in wood in- 

 spection. 



There is a very definite possibility that 

 with the coming of peace similar courses 

 of instruction for representatives of manu- 

 facturing plants in the wood using indus- 

 try will be instituted. .-\ number of manu- 

 facturers have expressed a desire to send 

 men to the Laboratory for a short period 

 of training. 



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