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trol might play in accomplishing this. It is to be hoped that the indus- 

 try as a whole takes a broader view of the matter. If not, it is not at 

 all unlikely that "strange attempts" will indeed be made, as Judge Boyle 

 fears, to improve present conditions in the interest of the common good. 



A case of private forest management in Canada is reported by Gar- 

 neau. It has reference to 84,000 acres of timberland belonging to the 

 seignory of Lotbiniere, half of which is under cutting rights of a lum- 

 ber company, the other half under conservative management by the 

 owner. 



The latter, who secured his forestry education at the University of 

 Toronto, is the grandson of Sir Henry Joly de Lotbiniere, one of Can- 

 ada's most noted citizens and earliest and most vigorous forestry 

 propagandists, also for years vice-president of the American Forestry 

 Association, and known for his walnut plantations, semi-successful in 

 the inhospitable climate of Quebec. He it was who began the practice 

 of conservative lumbering on his extensive estate, and the grandson 

 worthily has improved on his methods. The 44,000 acres under pres- 

 ent management contain merchantable material of 17,515 feet per acre 

 on the average. It is not clear how the cut is gauged, except that the 

 percentage of hemlock cut is 20 per cent, and that of spruce and balsam 

 70 per cent of the total, while in the stand hemlock participates with 

 10,000 feet and the other two conifers with 6,000 feet, a clear dispro- 

 portion in the cut. 



The main point in the management, which silviculturally relies upon 

 the selection system, is a systematic subdivision (with an unfortunate 

 mixing of nomenclature) into compartments, called divisions, and into 

 lots of one square mile, called compartments "for scientific calculation 

 and orientation" ; these, again, are subdivided into logging chances, 

 called working blocks, for letting to jobbers. The trees to be cut are 

 marked from silvicultural considerations, and, of course, all waste 

 avoided and protection organized under a superintendent of fires. 

 Since the organization comprises, besides an administrator and mill 

 manager (the service operates its own mill), a forest engineer, with 

 two assistants, the chances of a successful management from the stand- 

 point of personnel are good. There is no financial statement given. 



