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Moreover this land is situated for the most 

 part near the large markets where the good 

 prices secured for timber will make the 

 practice of forestry more profitable as the 

 years go by. 



"It is about time for us to look ahead to 

 this increasing demand for timber, protect 

 from fire the growth we have, cut out worth- 

 less trees and make room for better ones, 

 and plant good fast growing trees on our 

 waste land. This is true forestry — the rais- 

 ing of repeated crooc of timber on non- 

 agricultural land." 



Sir Wilfred Laurier, "and the conservation 

 of forests is one of these." 



Wood Products Exposition 



Agitation for a Woods Products Exposi- 

 tion in this country this year is now being 

 aroused by Editor Arthur Boiling Johnson, 

 of the Lumber World Review of Chicago 

 and there is every prospect that it will 

 result in such an exposition as is desired. 

 Detailed plans for the affair are to be pro- 

 posed in a short time and in the meantime 

 Editor Johnson is busy stiring up enthusiasm 

 for it. 



A Large Sale 



The sale of 800,000,000 feet of pine, fir 

 and cedar saw timber in the Sierra National 

 forest along the e^st side of the San Joaquin 

 Valley has been rnnounced by the Depart- 

 ment of Forestry ■-inr' if consummated, this 

 will be the biggest sale of timber ever 

 operated by the Government. The Depart- 

 ment will soon invite bids for this timber, 

 offering contracts of twenty years in which 

 to remove the timber, with two additional 

 years for the construction of necess.iry im- 

 provements. 



The announcement of the timber sale is 

 expected to attract much interest among lum- 

 ber men, as the timber is the most valuable 

 yet offered for sale by the Government anj-- 

 where in the West. The Forestry Depart- 

 ment is publishing an announcement of the 

 sale, calling for bids. 



Forestry Without Politics 



The taking of the Forestry Service, both 

 Dominion and Provincial, out of politics, 

 making way for technically trained men, was 

 advocated by G. Y. Chown, president, at the 

 annual Canadiaii Forestry Convention which 

 opened at Ottawa, recently. He also de- 

 clared for a permanent forest policy, and 

 for some efficient method of guarding against 

 forest fires. 



In an address of welcome to the dele- 

 gates, Premier Borden compared Canada 

 to a young man who had inherited a vast 

 estate and who, unless carefully watched, 

 was liable to squander his wealth. He 

 especially urged the association to impress 

 both legislators and the people with the 

 necessity of checking the forest fire evil. 



"There are some things on which the 

 Prime Minister and myself can agree," said 



The Leopard Moth 



The leopard moth more feared in its 

 work of destroying tiees than the brown tail 

 and gypsy moth, has ma 'e its appearance in 

 Waltham, Mass. 



The pest has been discovered by employees 

 of the City Forestry Department in three 

 widely separated sections of the city. 



There are two ways ' "> which the moth 

 may be killed. One is to spray a chemical 

 oil into the holes where the moth has entered 

 and block the holes up. A gas is formed 

 which destroys the pest. The other is to 

 use hot irons to burn the larvae. 



Money for Fire Sufferers 



Relatives of 32 men who lost their lives 

 and many men who were injured while fight- 

 ing fires in the Coeur d'Alene national forest 

 near Wallace, Idaho, the summer of 1910, 

 are sought by Roscoe Haines, suppervisor of 

 the forest, stationed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 

 regarding the distribution of the recent ap- 

 propriation by Congress for forest fire suf- 

 ferers. 



Few of the men, who came from various 

 parts of the United States and Canada, and 

 enlisted to fight fire, gave their home ad- 

 dresses, hence the Forest Service has been 

 unable to get into touch with relatives of 

 the dead and injured. 



New Firm of Forest Engineers 



A new firm of forest engineers has re- 

 cently opened offices in Philadelphia under 

 the name of Clark, Lyford & Sterling. The 

 members are Judson F. Clark, of Van- 

 couver, B. C, C. A. Lyford, of Montreal, 

 Que., and E. A. Sterling, of Philadelphia. 

 Mr. Clark and Mr. Lyford are also identi- 

 fied with the well known firms of Clark & 

 Lyford, Vancouver, B. C. and Lyford, Clark 

 & Lyford, Montreal Que. Mr. Sterling has 

 resigned his position as Forester of the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, which he has held 

 for the past five years. 



This organization is making a specialty of 

 timber estimates and forest maps, and is 

 prepared to examine and report on timber 

 properties anywhere. 



Chestnut Tree Disease 



Marsden Manson, of San Francisco, Cal., 

 writing in Science says : "In connection with 

 the chestnut tree blight. I call attention to 

 the hardv giant chinquapin of vhe Pacific 

 States. This mav be a resistant species adap- 

 table to the Southern States. It occurs in 

 two varieties, the one just mentioned and a 

 dwarfed variety. The former reaches a 

 height of 120 feet and has a diameter of 

 from 8 to 10 feet; ordinarily from 40 to 

 •").T feet in height and from i to 2 feet in 

 diameter. Locality, near Willets in Men- 

 docino County, Cal. The drawfed form is 



