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when in this program the importance of fire protection is being stressed 

 to such a great extent, the following note taken from The Australian 

 Forestry Journal of October, 1920, in which the writer, Robson Black, 

 is discussing conditions in Canada, will be refreshing to foresters who 

 feel that insufficient emphasis is being given the subject of silviculture : 

 "Because much Government machinery has been brought into being 

 for the mastery of the forest fire menace, one must not conclude that 

 the plague is subdued. It \vill not be until the economic and moral 

 senses of the population are considerably honed uj) by aggressive 

 education. Fire protection, however, is merely a rudiment of forest 

 management, corresponding to the purchase of a sprinkler system in 

 the art of making motor cars. Each is fundamental, like good health 

 and macadam roads. But fire protection is not sufficient to reconsti- 

 tute the values in the denuded white pine or spruce forests of Ontario 

 and Quebec. It is not alone sufficient to extend the life of the paper 

 mills beyond the doleful 'fifty years' guessed at by so many manu- 

 facturers during the recent paper inquiry. It will not arrest the per- 

 sistent crowding out of the white spruce by the quickly rotting balsam, 

 nor will it maintain the supremacy of the coniferous trees over the 

 less important hardwoods. This is the field of practical forestry." 



