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The Canada Luntbcniian and Woodzvorkcr for November 15, 1917, 

 is a "shipbuilding number" and includes several very interesting arti- 

 cles on the building of wooden ships — a trade that has been revived 

 by v\rar conditions. The articles are well illustrated, and after reading 

 and studying these pictures one realizes why it is that shipbuilding is 

 such a slow, tedious process. 



City Foresters Wanted 



Two more cities have recently taken action to secure city foresters. 

 These are Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin. The Avork in both cases 

 is to be under the Board of Park Commissioners, and men with the 

 necessary technical training and practical experience are wanted. Ex- 

 ecutive ability and a high degree of tact and firmness are also regarded 

 as necessary qualities, in order to handle the work efficiently and to 

 secure the co-operation of the general public. Foresters desiring to 

 apply for the position should write directly to the Board of Park Com- 

 missioners in the city concerned. 



It is refreshing to learn that in spite of the troublous times in the 

 world at large, and not least in China, the forestry propaganda in that 

 flood-scarred country has not been allowed to wane. Indeed, the ter- 

 rible flood of the year in the Province of Chihli, which made tens of 

 thousands of people homeless, was a persuasive supplement to the 

 propagandists' work. 



D. Y. Lin (Yale), professor of forestry in the University of Nan- 

 king, writes not only of his activity in popular education, but of his 

 success in enlisting prominent officials to take up the subject practically, 

 among them : "Ex-President Li Yuen-hung and ex-Premier Ilsiung 

 Hsi-ling, who is director general of relief work. Ex-President Li has 

 decided to start a demonstration forest in Nanking first and later on in 

 Ilupeh and Chihli. using his own money. Mr. TIsiung ITsi-ling. al- 

 though busy all the time with his many important duties, is going to 

 send men to investigate the headwaters of the five Chihli rivers which 

 have caused the annual floods, and it is our hope that after the investi- 

 gation he will establish some form of permanent forest board for 

 Chihli, to the (-nd that the ;inii-li<ir.-tti<iii of the five rivers may be per- 

 manently efFeeli'd."' 



C)ne of the most interesting substitutes which the war h.is provokt-il 

 is the use of sphagnum moss for wound dressing. A special committee 



