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crews put out and change lines and move donkey engines from one 

 end of a rollway to the other on their own time; put in all "fore jind 

 afters," and perform all other work necessary to begin operations 

 after roll ways are built and donkey engines are set. In case a donkey 

 crew stops logging to change donkeys or to do any work to be done by 

 them, and if one or more of the crew lays off for any cause, the com- 

 pany may put substitutes in their places and charge wages of said 

 substitutes to the crew. In case no substitute is furnished, the man 

 who quits forfeits one day's pay to the crew doing the work he was 

 entitled to do that day. No logs shall be credited to any crew or any 

 member of any crew until the logs are on cars in the switch yard and 

 have been scaled. In case a man quits, is discharged, or laid off, he 

 forfeits all rights to all logs on the rollway. Members of donkey 

 crews working until the camp shuts down or until the end of the sea- 

 son are entitled to pay for all logs on the rollway, even though these 

 logs are loaded after the donkey crew quits and are paid off. In case 

 a donkey crew has an extra hard "show," the rate is raised on that 

 "show." The company reserves the right to pay off all men working 

 less than one month, by the hour. 

 Timberman, March, 1917, p. 48B. 



In his presidential address before the Scottish 

 Forestry Arboricultural Society, Sir Andrew Agnew takes 



in a more cheerful view of forestry in Great Britain 



Great Britain "than we have been able to do for a long time." 

 Even in these war times, and, perhaps, on ac- 

 count of them, and finding out the awkwardness of relying on imports, 

 the government has appointed a special committee to deal with the 

 subject of reforesting waste lands — apparently taking the matter out 

 of the hands of the development committee, one of the many commit- 

 tees which have dabbled with the problem. The necessity of a special 

 forest department is urged. 



The year before the war the importation of wood materials exceeded 

 $200,000,000, while there are some 13,000,000 acres of waste land, 

 which may bring 25 to 50 cents from grazing, that could be used for 

 timber growth. The use of the returned soldiers for this planting is 

 suggested ; this in connection with the proposed farm colonies and 

 the repopulation of the Scotch Highlands. 



