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The meeting of The Canadian Lumber- 

 men's Association was largely attended and 

 much interest was shown. The question 

 of using Norway pine for wood paving 

 blocks aroused much interest. 



Mr. P. Z. Caverhill has finally com- 

 pleted his arrangements for taking charge 

 of the forest survey of New Brunswick 

 and will begin his work shortly. 



The annual meeting and dinner of the 

 St. Maurice Forest Protective Association 

 took place at the Windsor Hotel in Mon- 

 treal on Thursday, February 10. This 

 was the fourth annual meeting and the 

 Association can justly be proud of its 

 record. 



A postal card has been received from 

 H. R. MacMillan, British Columbia's chief 

 forester, from Mombasa, British East 

 Africa. He says that there is plenty of 

 woodland but no merchantable timber, 

 Mr. MacMillan is going next to India and 

 then to China and Japan in the interest of 

 the wood-using industries of his province. 



The Northern Electric Co., of Montreal, 

 had a very interesting exhibit of tele- 

 phones for forest use. They have gotten 

 out a new portable phone like those pre- 

 pared for the U. S. Forest Service and 

 also an iron box containing a telephone 

 outfit which can be fastened on a tree. 

 This will be great aid in fire protection. 



It is said that in the spring the Norwe- 

 gian Government will send a party of for- 

 esters to Canada to investigate forest con- 

 ditions. 



Mr. A. Holmgren, of Ostersund, Sweden, 

 formerly in charge of the Government 

 Ranger School at Bispagarden, has just 

 published a book. Mr. Holmgren made a 

 trip through Canada about three years 

 ago and is one of the leading foresters 

 of Sweden. 



The New Brunswick Railway Company, 

 at the suggestion of their forester, R. R. 

 Bradley, will begin planting operations in 

 the spring. 



Sr. Don Ricardo Codorniu, editor of 

 Espana Forestal, is doing work of which 

 his country, Spain, should be justly proud. 

 His journal is already one of the best 

 gotten up of the European papers, and the 

 articles are of great interest. 



Mr. W. C. J. Hall, chief of the Forest 

 Protection Branch of the Quebec Depart- 

 ment of Lands and Forests, is advocating 

 the use of aeroplanes for fire detection 

 in the woods. There is no doubt that this 

 is the ideal method and easy to use on 

 account of the large number of lakes and 

 rivers. 



traces of it in Ontario. This is bad news, 

 and it is to be hoped that the authorities 

 will act promptly to suppress it before it 

 assumes large proportions. This will also 

 be the most economical procedure. 



Mr. R. O. Sweezey, consulting forester 

 of Montreal, and at present serving as 

 instructor at the Royal Military College 

 at Kingston, Ont., has been elected an as- 

 sociate member of the Canadian Society 

 of Forest Engineers. 



A most interesting monument is being 

 erected to the memory of Herzl, a promi- 

 nent Zionist. He did much to better con- 

 ditions in Palestine and to forward the 

 Zionist movement, and his friends are 

 planting a grove of ninety thousand olive 

 trees to commemorate him and his work. 

 .A far better monument that than a statue. 



Mr. G. C. Piche, chief forester of Que- 

 bec, has been very successful with his sales 

 of stock from the Government Nursery 

 at Berthierville, one sale of two hundred 

 and fifty thousand trees having been made 

 to one firm. A graduate of his school, 

 Mr. Gareau, has been engaged as forester 

 by Mr. Snowball, head of one of the 

 largest New Brunswick lumber companies. 



Mr. A. E. Warren, assistant to the gen- 

 eral manager of the Canadian Northern 

 Railway System, has a very interesting ar- 

 ticle in the last number of the Canadian 

 Forestry Journal, describing the methods 

 of fire protection on their lines. The Cana- 

 dian Northern has attacked the problem of 

 railroad fires with vigor and deserves much 

 credit. 



The Great Eastern Railway of England 

 has recently, at the request of the British 

 Columbia Government, carried out some 

 experiments with Douglas fir and red cedar 

 ties alongside of ties obtained from the 

 Baltic. These timbers showed great su- 

 periority over those from Russia and it is 

 hoped that the English and Indian rail- 

 ways will take their supply from western 

 Canada. 



The Canadian Forestry Association has 

 inaugurated a free cut and cartoon service 

 to all the newspapers in Canada to aid in 

 its propaganda work. These are being 

 gladly received by the newspapers, and will 

 be a great help in educational work. Noth- 

 ing strikes the eye and attracts the atten- 

 tion like a good picture and the impression 

 is superior to columns of print. 



It is reported that there is an outbreak 

 of white pine blister rust in Maine and 



The Forester's Club of Ottawa, at the 

 last meeting, tried an innovation which 

 was very successful, inviting forest ad- 

 ministrators and lumbermen to attend. This 

 was very successful and will be continued, 

 as such meetings do much to bring the 

 lumbermen and the foresters into closer 

 touch and show them how much they 

 reallv have in common. 



British Columbia Notes 



Victoria, B. C. — The investigation now 

 being made by the Federal Trade Com- 

 mission into the conditions of the lumber- 

 ing industry has brought out in an em- 

 phatic way the opinion held by American 

 lumbermen that far more is being done 

 to help the industry on the British Co- 

 lumbia side of the boundary than in the 

 United States. 



"British Columbia," stated counsel at 

 the recent hearing at Washington, D. C, 

 "is laying the foundations of a preferen- 

 tial tariff. An active virile common- 

 wealth producing the same commodity 

 and competing in the same markets is 

 aiding its own lumber industry in every 

 reasonable way. Officials there are pro- 

 gressive and awake to the opportunities 

 of the day." 



The brief filed with the Commission 

 by the West Coast Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers Association states: "There is no ques- 

 tion as to the British Columbia Govern- 

 mental policy toward the industry. It 

 appears in every law and in every act. 

 The attitude of the Forest Branch is best 

 expressed by its representative: 'It is 

 our business to help the industry in every 

 possible way. We are practically in part- 

 nership with it.' This extends not only 

 to export, but to domestic trade as well. 

 The entire subject is handled methodi- 

 cally and intelligently with the fixed and 

 definite purpose of furthering and fos- 

 tering the industry in every possible way." 



Current Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOE FEBRUARY, 

 1916 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the Library 

 of the United States Forest Service.) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 



Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 

 officers, etc. 



Great Britain — Commissioners of woods, 

 forests, and land revenues. Ninety-third 

 report. 115 p. London, 1915. 



India — Ajmere-Merwara • — Forest dept. 

 Annual report on forest administration 

 for the year 1913-14. 32 p. Mount Abu, 

 1914. 



Kentucky — State forester. Second biennial 

 report, 1915. 140 p. pi., maps, tables. 

 Frankfort, Ky., 1916. 



Western forestry and conservation associa- 

 tion. Proceedings, San Francisco, Oct. 

 19-20, 1915. 31 p. il. Portland, Ore., 

 1915. 



Forest Aesthetics 



Lieghley, E. O. Tree trimming ^nd the care 

 of trees. 12 p. il. Phila., Pa. American 

 telephone and telegraph co., 1912. 



Forest Education 



Forest schools 



Georgia college of forestr>'. Announcement, 

 1915. 7 p. Greensboro, Ga., 1915. 



