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carried on under the direction of forest officials, for the re- 

 moval of defective timber and weed trees, and these operations 

 not only have much improved the species composition of the for- 

 ests but have proved financially justifiable as well- 

 Replanting is also being extensively carried on in the various 

 reserves, the total area replanted at the end of 191 1 being 48,136 

 acres. Several species of exotics are being introduced with con- 

 siderable success. Nurseries are maintained and the seed and 

 transplants of forest trees are sold to the public at cost. About 

 six thousand dollars worth of seed was sold by the Department 

 during the year, together with 2,806,402 seedlings, valued at over 

 $42,500.00. 



The James Maclaren Company, Ltd., of Buckingham, Quebec, 

 has awarded a contract to survey and cruise their limits on the 

 Lievre River to Vitale & Rothery, Forest Engineers, 527 Fifth 

 Avenue, New York City. The Engineers have 30 men in the field 

 at present, and are planning to complete the work in a year and a 

 half. The limits comprise approximately 2700 square miles in the 

 western part of Quebec Province. A thorough cruise, survey and 

 appraisal will be made, studies compiled of the growing capacity 

 and reproductivity of the tract and other information gathered 

 v/hich will assist in putting the large property on a practical basis 

 for management. 



That European foresters are following with keen interest the 

 development of American Forest Organization, is evidenced by 

 a reference in Forstmeister Heger's address on "Forest Fire Pro- 

 tection" before the 56th annual meeting of the Saxon "Forst- 

 verein." ''Every Working Plan," said he, "serves to secure fire 



protection, though only as a subsidiary purpose whereas in 



North America the protection of the Forest against fire is made 

 a main point of every working plan." 



The Royal English Arboricultural Society has arranged for a 

 summer meeting in Germany during the month of September, 

 starting at Frankfurt am Main, visiting the city forest, the Ober- 

 forsterei Mitteldick, Lichtenau and other points in the Spessart, 

 Schonmunzach, Freudenstadt and Pfalzgrafenweiler in the Black 



