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Canadian Department 



By Ellwood Wilson 

 Secretary, Canadian Society of Forest Engineers 



Mr. H. R. MacMillan is now in Calcutta, 

 India, investigating conditions and mar- 

 kets and will proceed from there to China 

 and Japan. 



Mr. R. H. Campbell writes that the ac- 

 tivities of the Dominion Forest Branch 

 will continue along the same lines as last 

 season. 



A. H. Unwin, of England, writes that 

 he is going to Nokling, via Lagos Nigeria, 

 Africa, for the next twelve months. 



Henry Sorgius, manager of the St. Mau- 

 rice Forest Protective Association, made a 

 trip to Michigan to attend the meeting of 

 the Northern Forest Protective Associa- 

 tion. Sorgius is very busy with his plans 

 for the season's work and is equipping a 

 gasoline speeder and a Ford automobile 

 with the new pump designed by Mr. John- 

 son, of the Dominion Railway Commis- 

 sion. Circulars are also being sent out 

 to the settlers explaining to them the 

 changes in the fire laws and asking their 

 cooperation. 



B. K. Ayers writes from Ansonia, Con- 

 necticut, where he is forester for the An- 

 sonia Forest Products Company: "That 

 circular letter should prove a good idea. 

 Business is very good with us, particu- 

 larly so on account of embargoes on the 

 N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. which shuts 

 out lumber shipments from connecting 

 lines both north and south. There is 

 an immense volume of war business in 

 this immediate section, as there are large 

 brass mills of all sorts outside of the 

 strictly munition works of Winchester and 

 Marlin at New Haven, Remington and 

 Lake Torpedo at Bridgeport, and Colt's 

 at Hartford. The whole Naugatuck Val- 

 ley is one large brass center and is work- 

 ing overtime. At the same time that 

 prices are good and orders plenty for 

 lumber, wages have increased for both 

 teams and men." 



R. C. Sweezy writes from the Royal 

 Military College at Kingston that he is 

 carrying on a detailed survey for M. J. 

 O'Brien in the Upper Ottawa, area 1,125 

 square miles and that he gets away occa- 

 sionally from his miUtary duties to see 

 how his parties are progressing. Recently 

 he made a brief examination of the lim- 

 its of the Mattagami Pulp and Paper 

 Company in Northern Ontario. 



G. H. Gutches, superintendent of The 

 New York State Ranger School, has re- 

 signed, and will return to the Dominion 

 Forest Service. 



P. Z. Caverhill, forester for the Prov- 

 ince of New Brunswick, is preparing his 

 plans for a forest survey of that province 

 and has mapped out a most excellent 

 scheme. Mr. Caverhill will make a trip to 

 Grande Mere in April. 



EUwood Wilson is going to Syracuse on 

 April 1 to lecture to the students of The 

 New York State College of Forestry. 



A. C. 'Volkmar, forester of the Riordan 

 Paper Company, St. Jovite, Quebec, has 

 been elected an associate member of the 

 Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. 



R. R. Bradley, of the New Brunswick 

 Railway Company is preparing his final 

 maps of the territory owned by that com- 

 pany, and expects, in the spring, to un- 

 dertake planting operations on a large 

 scale. 



Roy L. Camptell, secretary of the Cana- 

 dian Pulp & Paper Association, did a 

 great deal to make their last meeting the 

 wonderful success it was. 



George Chahoon, Jr., president of the 

 Laurentide Company. Ltd., is going to 

 spend the month of April with F. A. Sab- 

 bation, vice-president of the Laurentide 

 Power Company, at Hot Springs, Virginia. 

 Mr. Chahoon is an enthusiastic golfer, and 

 Mr. Sabbation is a tennis player of no 

 mean order. 



B. M. Winegar, of the C. P. R., reports 

 that he will begin the planting of trees 

 for snow sheds along the eastern lines 

 of that road. 



Arnold Hanssen, of the Laurentide 

 Company, Ltd., has been busy all winter 

 clearing off the flood basin of the River 

 St. Maurice, about to be flooded by the 

 company's new dam, hauling the wood and 

 trying to dispose of it to the best ad- 

 vantage. 



Prof. R. B. Miller, of the University of 

 New Brunswick, has been getting out 

 some very creditable reconnaissance maps 

 made by his students. 



H. R. Christie, of B. C, is going to Ot- 

 tawa for the purpose of enlisting. 



In the issue of "El Correo Espanol" of 

 March 7, published in Madrid, there is 

 an article commenting on the scarcity of 

 paper and urging the founding of a For- 

 est Products Laboratory modeled on that 

 at McGill, to which it pays high tribute. 



Current 



Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR APRIL, X916 



(Books and periodicals indexed in the library 



of the United States Forest Service.) 



FORESTR'? AS A WHOLE 



Proceedings and reports of associations, forest 



officers, etc. 

 British Columbia— Dept. of lands— Forest 

 branch. Report for the year ending 

 December 31, 1915. 56 p. Victoria, 

 B. C, 1916. 

 Connecticut— State forester. Eighth report, 

 1915. 40 p. maps. New Haven, Conn., 

 1916. 

 India— Baluchistan— Forest dept. Progress 

 report of forest administration for 1914- 

 15. 32 p. Calcutta, 1915. 

 India— Bihar and Orissa— Forest dept. 

 Annual progress report on forest ad- 

 ministration for the year 1914-15. 56 p. 

 Patna, 1915. 

 India— Jammu and Kashmir— Forest dept. 

 Progress report of forest administration 

 forthe year 1914-15. 81 p. Lahore 1915. 

 India— Madras presidency— Forest dept. 

 Annual administration report for the 

 twelve months ending June 30, 1915. 

 171 p. Madras, 1915. 

 India— Northwest frontier province. Pro- 

 gress report on forest administration for 

 the year 1914-15. 44 p. Peshawar, 

 1915. 

 Indiana— State board of forestry. Fifteenth 

 annual report. 168 p. il. Indianapolis, 

 1915. 

 Ontario— Dept. of lands, forests and mines. 

 Report for the year ending October 31, 

 1915. 89 p. il. Toronto, 1916. 

 Sweden— Domanstyrelse. Forvaltning ar 



1912. 163 p. Stockholm, 1914. 

 Sweden — Forstliche versuchsanstalt. Mit- 

 teilungen, heft 12, 1915. 189 p. il. 

 Stockholm, 1916. 

 Vermont— State forester. Seventh annual 

 report, 1915. 55 p. pi. St. Albans, 

 1915. 



Forest Education 



Forest schools 



Yale forest school. Summer camp for young 

 men, Milford Pike County, Pa., under 

 the auspices of the Yale school of forestry. 

 8 p. il. New Haven, Conn., 1916. 



Arbor day 



Indiana — State board of forestry. Indiana 

 centennial patriotic arbor and bird day 

 manual. 54 p. il. Indianapolis, 1916. 



Ohio — Dept. of public instruction. Arbor 

 and bird day manual. 96 p. il. Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, 1916. 



Woods: classification and structure 



Prichard, Reuben P. The structure of the 

 common woods of New York and the 

 wood collection distributed by the college 

 of forestry. 31 p. il. Syracuse, N. Y., 

 1915. (New York state college of fores- 

 try, Syracuse university. Bulletin, v. 

 IS, no. 3.) 



