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York State, 10.3 per cent, of the raw material manufactured in 

 the 62 pulp mills of the New England States (Maine, Massachu- 

 setts, New Hampshire and Vermont) and 6.1 per cent, of the 

 raw material used by the 16 pulp mills of Pennsylvania. A 

 larger quantity of pulpwood was exported in 1909 than in 1908. 



The manufacture of the 915,633 cords of wood exported in 

 1909 kept running at full capacity for the year 69 of the 251 

 pulp mills in the United States. If this pulpwood had been re- 

 duced to pulp in Canada, it would have supplied for the year 

 y;^ pulp mills of the average size of those already in Canada. 

 The greater part of the pulpwood exported was cut in Quebec ; 

 if it had been manufactured in Quebec it would have kept run- 

 ning 71 mills of the same size as those now existing in Quebec. 



J. H. W. 



[All publications issued by the Forestry Branch are free on application.] 



Report of the State Forester of Wisconsin for ipop and ipio. 

 By E. M. Grififith. Madison, Wisconsin. 1910. Pp. 136. 



This report is a vigorous presentation of reasons why the state 

 legislature should carry out the recommendations of the special 

 Legislative Committee on Waterpowers, Forestry and Drainage. 

 This committee, after studying conditions for two years, has 

 joined with the State Conservation Commission and State Board 

 of Forestry in recommending that a general state tax of 2-10 of a 

 mill be levied and collected annually for twenty years ; and that 

 the proceeds be granted to the Board of Forestry to inaugurate 

 a fire patrol system and to purchase lands to consolidate the pres- 

 ent reserves. 



The above tax will yield $600,000 yearly, and it is estimated 

 that the cost of the patrol system will amount to $250,000 per 

 year (13 million acres). The balance is to be used to purchase 

 more reserve land till the present reserves of 340,000 acres are 

 increased to two million acres, and also for their management. 



That the present system of fire protection is useless is shown 

 by the fact that in 1908 one million acres were burned over with 

 a loss of $9,000,000, and in 1910 nearly 900,000 acres with a 

 loss of $5,000,000. The season of 1909 was very wet and the 

 damage was small. As the writer well says : "The American 

 people as a whole are uncivilized in their apparently stoical in- 



