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the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers. 

 Both these gentlemen are members of the 

 Dominion Forest Service, stationed at Cal- 

 gary, Alta. 



ElUvood Wilson, Jr., who studied forestry 

 and engineering at Cornell and McGill Uni- 

 versities, has enlisted with the 242nd For- 

 estry Battalion, C. E. P., and has been given a 

 commission as lieutenant. From the Lauren- 

 tide Company, Limited, Sergeant Lendrum 

 and Corporal Roberts have also joined this 

 battalion. Under Colonel J. B. White, this 

 battalion is rapidly getting up to strength 

 and is getting some splendid recruits, many 

 of them coming all the way from British 

 Columbia. They are quartered in the Guy 

 Street barracks in Montreal and daily drills 

 are whipping the men into shape. This is an 

 excellent opportunity for foresty students 

 who want a year or two of practical experi- 

 ence, as this battalion is recruited to do for- 

 estry and lumbering work, under military 

 discipline and direction, in both England 

 and France. Letters received from men 

 who went over with the first Forestry Bat- 

 talion are most enthusiastic. 



Doctor Fernow, Mr. Clyde Leavitt, and 

 Mr. S. L. de Carteret have been at the meet- 

 ing of the Eastern Foresters' Society and 

 the Society for the Protection of the New 

 Hampshire Forests at Crawford Notch, New 

 Hampshire. 



H. R. MacMillan, Chief Forester of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, has recently returned from 

 his trip to England, South and East Africa, 

 India, Australia and New Zealand, and 

 expects to leave shortly for China and 

 Japan. He was sent out by his Government 

 to investigate trade openings in connection 

 with the lumber industry and his advance 

 report is said to be most favorable and it is 

 hoped that a big export business will be built 

 up as a result of his trip. His conclusions 

 are that there is a splendid opportunity for 

 lumber, pulp and paper business in the coun- 

 tries visited. 



All the paper mills in Canada are either 

 enlarging their plants or planning to do so 

 and it is pretty certain that, if the forests 

 are properly protected, so as to give a per- 

 manent supply of raw material, that Canada 

 will take the place of Scandinavia in sup- 

 plying the world with pulp and paper. 



It is reported that Buffalo interests will 

 build a pulp mill " somewhere in Labra- 

 dor." This looks like a foolhardy proposi- 

 tion, as it is difficult enough to erect and 

 supply with raw material and labor a pulp 

 mill in ordinary locations, but especially so 

 to build it almost within the Arctic Circle, 

 where access could be had for only a few 

 months in the year and where the small and 

 scanty spruce would have to be used. 



Peeled pulp wood at Jacksonboro. on the 

 Transcontinental in Ontario is selling, two 

 feet long, for ten dollars a cord, f . o. b. cars, 

 and is being shipped to Wisconsin, where it 

 will cost delivered $17 to $18 per cord, as 

 against $12 to $14. If the price continues to 

 rise tliere will be big money in planting 

 spruce on poor lands near railroad lines. 



Mr. E. H. Finlayson, District Inspector 

 for Alberta, reports a very busy summer. 



:Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of Que- 

 bec, has decided to postpone the opening of 

 the Government Nursery and Forest Experi- 

 ment Station until next spring. Six good 

 students will enter the Quebec Forestry 

 School as freshmen this fall. 



The experience of the present season has 

 proved conclusively that with very few 

 exceptions, the Dominion charted railways 

 of Canada have faithfully observed the 

 requirements relative to forest fire pro- 

 tection imposed upon them by the Board of 

 Railway Commissioners. The proof of this 

 lies in the fact that, notwithstanding the 

 exceptionally dry season, practically no for- 

 est fires of any serious consequence have 

 occurred which could be attributed to rail- 

 way agencies. It is true that a good many 

 fires have started, many of them resulting 

 unavoidably from the operation of trains, 

 but the records show that, in general, the 

 railway employes have been prompt in dis- 

 covering, reporting and extinguishing these 

 fires before they had time to cause serious 

 damage. 



Especial care has been taken by the com- 

 panies in keeping the fire-protective appli- 

 ances of engines in good order, and a large 

 amount of work has been done in disposing 

 of inflammable debris on rights of way. Spe- 

 cial patrols have been maintained in forest 

 sections, supplemented on all lines by the 

 observance of special instructions to all 

 regular employes relative to the reporting 

 and extinguishing of fires in the vicinity of 

 the track. 



Not only have the railways been remark- 

 ably eflncient in handling their own fires, but 

 they have extinguished or aided in extin- 

 guishing many fires that originated at a dis- 

 tance from the track, due to all sorts of out- 

 side agencies. They have cooperated, 

 wherever possible, with governmental or 

 private fire-protective agencies, with bene- 

 ficial results which, a few years ago, might 

 have been thought impossible. 



Reports indicate that, in many sections, 

 settlers' clearing fires are the most serious 

 source of fire danger. The experience of 

 this year indicates the extreme importance 

 of controlling this hazard, through the strict 

 enforcement of existing legislation in Que- 

 bec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Brit- 

 ish Columbia and the enactment and 

 enforcement of similar legislation in 

 Ontario. 



Current 



Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR SEPTEMBER, 



igi6 

 (Books and periodicals indexed in the 



library of the United States Forest 



Service.) 



FORESTRY AS A WHOLE 



Procccdinys and reports of associations, 

 forest oHiccrs, etc. 



India — Bombay presidency — Forest dept. — 

 Administration report for the year 

 1914-1915. 184 p. Bombay, 1916. 



Xew Zealand — Dept. of lands and surveys. 

 Report on state nurseries and planta- 

 tions, 1915-1916. 32 p. Wellington. N. 

 Z., 1916. 



Royal Scottish arboricultural society. — 

 Transactions, vol. 30, pt. 2. 90 p. pi. 

 Edinburgh, 1916. 



Russia — Lynesnoi departament (Forest 

 dept.) — Ezheghodnik (Year book), 

 1911-1913, vol. 1-2. il. pi. Petro- 

 ghrad, 1913-1915. 



Schweizerische centralanstalt fur das forst- 

 liche versuchswesen — Mitteilungen. vol. 

 11, No. 2. Ziirich, Switz.. 1916. 

 Forest .Esthetics 



Newark, N. J. — Shade tree commission. 

 Twelfth annual report, 1915. 66 p. il., 

 pi. Newark, N. J., 1916. 



Wolf, E. L. — Dekorativnuie kustarniki i 

 derev'ya dlya sadov i parkov. (Decora- 

 tive shrubs and trees for parks and 

 gardens.) 461 p. il. Petroghrad. 1915. 



Forest Education 



Arbor Day 



California — Supt. of public instruction. 

 Conservation, bird and arbor day in 

 California, 1916. 13 p. il. Sacrament<>, 

 Cal., 1916. 



Illinois — Dept. of public instruction. .Arbor 

 and bird days, 1915. 78 p. il. Spring- 

 field, 111., 1915. 



forest Schools 



North Dakota state school of forestry. — 

 Tenth annual catalogue. 1915-1916. with 

 announcements for 1916-191". 70 p. pi. 

 Bottineau, N. D., 1916. 



Oregon agricultural college — School of for- 

 estry. Catalogue for 1916-1917. 32 p. 

 il. Corvallis. Ore., 1916. 



Forest Botany 



.■\she, W. W. — Notes on Pomacese of upper 

 South Carolina. 7 p. Charleston, S. C, 

 1916. 



Maiden, J. H. — The forest flora of New 

 South Wales, pt. 59. 36 p. pi. Sydney, 

 N. S. W., Gov't, printer, 1916. 



Silviculture 



Planting and nursery practice 



Kull, Alfred J. — K handy book for planters 

 and lovers of nature, with valuable 

 hints in general. 34 p. i!.. pi. Far 

 Hills, N. J., 1916. 



