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which is merchantable and only 12 per cent vacant and water, with an 

 annual cut of around 650 million board feet in logs and cordwood. 

 employing near 14,000 men. 



One interest of the association, which was particularly accentuated 

 by the president, lies in the direction of bringing the State of New 

 York to a saner policy with regard to its forest preserve, which makes 

 a "cemetery of 1,800,000 acres of potential forest area," an investment 

 of approximately $4,000,000, and with "an annual appropriation for 

 the care and maintenance of the cemetery ... of $300,000." We 

 need not expand to our readers an explanation of this extravagance, or 

 should we say extravaganza. A lengthy discussion of the situation, in 

 which both sides were represented, took place at the banquet. 



We have no space to go into the details of the report. Among the 

 addresses which are worth reading are Professor Hosmer's clear expose 

 of the forest taxation problem; Professor Toumey's discussion of the 

 economic aspects of reforestation, in which the author pins his faith on 

 private endeavor, although he furnishes cogent arguments against such 

 expectation. 



W. R. Brown sent a highly interesting account of his Timberlands 

 Mutual Fire Insurance Company, recently formed in New Hampshire, 

 which has already written policies close to $400,000. This is a develop- 

 ment which we commend especially to the attention of our readers. 

 It has led to a new profession, namely, that of "forest actuary." 



The Canada Lumberman, editorially objecting to the extravagant 

 statements made in popular magazines regarding the waste of wood in 

 forest and mill, gives the following measurements of the longlcaf pine 

 trees : Of a 26-inch d. b. h. tree, 74.5 per cent of the total cubic contents, 

 including stump and branches, went to the mill and 45 per cent was 

 turned into lumber; of a 14-inch tree, 67 per cent went to mill and 46.5 

 per cent into lumber. 



The Canadian Forestry Association held a well attended conference 

 of two days, at Montreal, February 6 and 7. The association has now 

 a membership of 6,200. Total receipts for the year were nearly $12.- 

 000, of which $2,235 were secured through special subscriptions — a 

 financial feat these war times! It is significant to note that a railroad 

 man and a lumberman were elected president and vice-president, 

 namely, Licut.-Col. J. S. Dnmis, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and 

 J. A. Gillies, of Gillies Brothers. 



