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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Canadian 



Department 



By Ellwood Wilson 

 Secretary, Canadian Society of 

 Forest Engineers 

 The Canada Paper Company, Ltd., under 

 the able management of Mr. F. J. Camp- 

 bell, has just paid up $28.00 per share of 

 deferred dividends on its preferred stock. 

 This company commenced some forestry 

 work last year and this year cut fire lines 

 and began the cleaning up of wood- 

 lands. The companies who use the most 

 advanced forestry methods are the most 

 successful financially. 



Capt. J. H. A. Acer, Sales Manager of 

 the Laurentide Company, Ltd., has been re- 

 cruiting a machine-gun battery in Grand- 

 mere, and has taken fifteen Company men 

 and has gotten in all, from the St. Maurice 

 Valley, about thirty-five recruits. James S. 

 Scott, a former employee and son of Col. 

 Scott, of Quebec, has received the Military 

 Cross for aviation work. Mr. Stuart, for- 

 merly with the Forestry Division, has been 

 promoted for bravery. 



The plant of the Abitibbi Company, at 

 Iroquois Falls, Ontario, was, fortunately, 

 not damaged by the recent forest fires. 



Mr. T. W. Dwight, of the Dominion For- 

 est Branchy spent two days at Grandmere, 

 looking over the plantations, nurseries, etc., 

 of the Laurentide Company, Ltd. 



The fire situation in British Columbia has 

 been dangerous and all permits to burn 

 slash have been cancelled until the danger 

 season is past. Eight settlers have been 

 burned out, but the Fire Protection Service 

 has the matter in hand. 



The Riordan Paper Company, of Mont- 

 real, have begun, at the advice of their 

 Forester, Mr. Volkmar, and after an in- 

 vestigation of the planting operations of 

 the Laurentide Company, planting opera- 

 tions on their limits. This Company has 

 been financially successful and is up-to-date 

 in every respect. 



Mr. A. H. Unwin, a member of the Cana- 

 dian Society of Forest Engineers, who is 

 at present stationed in Nigeria in Africa, 

 has a very interesting article in the July 

 number of the Canadian Forestry Journal 

 on conditions in that country. 



The Canadian Pacific Railway is again to 

 the front with a most important project, 

 the establishment of the Canadian Research 

 Bureau, under tlie direction of the well- 

 known chemical engineer of Boston and a 

 former president of the American Chemical 

 Society. The object of the Bureau is to 

 investigate, organize and systematize our 



natural resources, minerals, metals, hj-dro- 

 electric possibilities and forests and to 

 formulate plans for the lessening of waste. 

 The bulletins issued will be sent out to manu- 

 facturers, merchants and other.-^ interested. 



The distances covered by experienced 

 forest rangers are seldom realized. Dur- 

 ing thirty-nine days the sixty rangers em- 

 ployed by the Lower Ottawa Forest Pro- 

 tective Association covered 21,678 miles of 

 trails and highways, making an average of 

 about ten miles a day, which, considering 

 the country, is pretty good going. The 

 telephone has been of the greatest value 

 in the work of this Association. The W. 

 C. Edwards and Gilmour and Hughson 

 Companies have built quite a number of 

 miles of lines, and the .Association is nego- 

 tiating to take over and operate these. 



Mr. Herman Schanche, who has been 

 for the past year with the Laurentide Com- 

 pany's Forestry Division, is returning to 

 Penn State College to continue his for- 

 estry studies, as is also Mr. Charles Clax- 

 ton, who has been in charge of fire ranging 

 on the Company's planted lands. 



Mr. Arnold Hanssen, of the same Com- 

 pany, and a member of the Canadian So- 

 ciety of Forest Engineers, who has done 

 splendid work in the establishment and de- 

 velopment of the Laurentide's nurseries, is 

 going to take the forestry course at Yale 

 this winter. Mr. Hanssen graduated at the 

 University of Konigsberg in Norway and 

 has worked at Grandmere ever since com- 

 ing to Canada. 



Recruiting for the 242nd Forestry Battal- 

 ion, C. E. F., under Lt.-Col. J. B. White, 

 of the Riordan Paper Company, of JMont- 

 real, has begun and the Battalion hopes to 

 get to strength and go over to England 

 before November. This will be a most 

 excellent opportunity for foresters or for- 

 estry students to see and work in the 

 forests of England and France, to get a 

 good military training, and to help the 

 Allies in their fight for the world's liberty. 

 Men of American residence can probably 

 enlist and will meet a fine body of men. 

 The editor of this Department will gladly 

 receive inquiries. 



Lieut. J. G. Sheare, 1st Regiment, Grena- 

 dier Guards, president of James Shearer 

 Company, Ltd., dealers in sash and doors, 

 of Montreal, was recently presented with 

 a testimonial from the Royal Humane So- 

 ciety for his gallant service in stopping a 

 runaway horse. 



It Was Asheville, N. C. 



In the article, " County, City, Town, and 

 School Forests," by J. W. Toumey, director 

 of the Yale Forest School, in Americ.-iN 

 Forestry for July, Asheville, N. C., was in- 

 advertently placed under tlie state heading, 

 New Jersey. 



A Firm's Changes 



The firm of Thomas Meehan & Sons, of 

 Dresher, Pennsylvania, was dissolved re- 

 cently and announcement made that the 

 retail department and nursery at German- 

 town, Philadelphia, and the landscape de- 

 partment at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, will be 

 continued by S. Mendelson Meehan and J. 

 Franklin Meehan, under the firm name of 

 Thomas Meehan & Sons, while the whole- 

 sale department and nursery at Dresher, 

 Pennsylvania, will be taken over by Thomas 

 B. Meehan and his son, Albert F. Meehan, 

 and will be conducted under the firm name 

 of Thomas B. Meehan Company. 



Blowing Up a Tree 



R. F. Vann, of Columbia, South Carolina, 

 writes : " Some time ago a neighbor had a 

 fine large hickory tree blown down during 

 a storm. After obstructing a roadway for 

 some time, he decided to cut it up. It had 

 then become dry and, being knotty, was 

 extremely tough. When he tried to saw it, 

 the timber closed on the saw. Then we 

 bored holes in the top and sides of the log, 

 loaded them with dynamite and tamped 

 with a stiff yellow clay. In priming we 

 used electric fuses and fired the shots all 

 at the same time. It took just about an 

 hour to dispose of this tree which had been 

 an eve-sore for several months." 



Current 



Literature 



MONTHLY LIST FOR AUGUST, 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. 



India — Ajmer-Merwara — Forest dept. An- 

 nual report on the forest administra- 

 tion in Ajmer-Merwara for the year 

 1914-15. 28 p. Mount Abu, 1916. 



India — Andaman Islands — Forest dept. Re- 

 port on forest administration in the 

 Andamans for 1914-15. 42 p. Cal- 

 cutta, 1916. 



India — Burma — Forest dept. Report on the 

 forest administration in Burma for the 

 year 1914-15. 109 p. Rangoon, 1916. 



India — Coorg — Forest dept. Progress re- 

 port of forest administration in Coorg 

 for 1914-15. 27 p. Bangalore, 1916. 



West Virginia forest, game and fish pro- 

 tective association. Ninth annual meet- 

 ing, 1915. 74 p. Belington. W. Va., 

 1915. 



Forest Description 



Thays, Charles. Les forets naturelles de la 

 Republique Argentine; projets des pares 

 nationaux. 45 p. il. Paris. 1913. 



