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mality is taken as the whole rotation," while according to von Gutten- 

 berg (see Roth, Forest Regulation, p. 151) this appears to be a mis- 

 conception. The Gazon method (France) of regulating the cut with 

 which Recknagel evidently was not acquainted, might have been in- 

 cluded since an effort was evidently made to include all possible 

 methods. 



The book does not pretend to be a treatise on regulation and cer- 

 tainly there is much about American working plan practice that could 

 not be included for the simple rea.son that it does not exist. But the 

 introduction of even frankly German methods, it is believed, should 

 help foresters in the country to have more enthusiasm for the theory 

 and practice of working plans. 



T. S. WooLSEY, Jr. 



Statistical Yearbook, Province of Canada, Third Year, Section C: 

 Forests, pp. 414-428; Section D: Forest Industries, pp. 429-43. Pro- 

 vincial Secretary's Department. Quebec, Que. 1916. 



While in the preceding Yearbook Mr. Piche, Chief of the Forestry 

 PJranch, discussed at length the administration of Quebec timber lands 

 in all its details, the present volume precedes the statistical part by a 

 short description of the forest of Quebec by Mr. Bedard, Assistant 

 Chief Engineer of the Forestry Service, while Mr. Piche, now under 

 the title Head of the Forestry Service, furnishes only the discussion 

 on the manufacture of woodpulp. 



The forests of Quebec may be divided into three zones, namely, 

 two mountain zones, the Alleghany and the Laurentian zone, and the 

 Plain zone between these two mountain or hill ranges. The Plain zone 

 is largely agricultural soil and with some exceptions the forest por- 

 tions are smaller woodlots of hardwood, sometimes with coniferous 

 admixture, a few larger areas circumscribing properties of the old 

 seignorial concessions. The author makes this zone "the zone of par- 

 ticular trees," whatever this may mean. Among the hardwoods, "wal- 

 nut" is enumerated, probably butternut is meant. A number of rivers 

 extend the valley and climatic conditions into the mountains, deeper 

 into the Alleghanies than the Laurentians. Only small lumbering 

 operations and the maple sugar industry are here developed, and the 

 forest is recovering the poorer abandoned farms. 



The Alleghany zone on the south side of the Lawrence river also 

 contains extensive farm areas. The composition of the forest from 



