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of producing 100 million feet of timber and pulpwood annually, 

 equal to an annual business of $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, With 

 this timber yield will come new industries and the area now in 

 waste, may be made to produce by fire protection alone $2.00 per 

 acre per year in perpetuity. There is now sufficient merchant- 

 able timber on the ground to meet the cost of administration. 



This report reduces to definite terms the condition which is 

 known by foresters to be true now, or becoming true, throughout 

 extensive forest regions in Canada. It could not be more clearly 

 shown that the failure of the Canadian people to protect forest 

 lands from fire, to restrict agricultural settlements to agricul- 

 tural lands, is leading in a large degree to the destruction of our 

 forest resource and the reduction of our agricultural resource. 



The chief cause of delay in organizing fully equipped forest 

 services in Eastern Canada may be the fear that such services 

 will cost money which is needed for other apparently more pres- 

 sing government expenditures. This study shows how a great 

 forest reserve will quickly pay for itself by the protection of 

 valuable young stands from fire, by the encouragement of new 

 industries in now barren districts, by the protection of the public 

 timber from trespass and the collection of the full public revenue. 



H. R. McM. 



Woodlot Forestry. By R. Rosenbluth. Conservation Commis- 

 sion. State of New York, 1913. 104 pp. 



The literature devoted to the woodlot laid down in the great 

 mass of articles, bulletins and other published material has been 

 exceptionally meager in application up to the present date. 



The latest available statistics show that out of a total forest 

 area of 545 million acres in this country at least 202 million are 

 included in woodlots or in remaining portions of the original vir- 

 gin forest which in character of ownership, products, etc. may 

 be classed as such. Surely this is going to play an important part 

 in the production of our future wood supplies, and therefore the 

 proper care, maintenance and utilization of our woodlot areas are 

 of great economic interest. It is therefore with pleasure that we 

 welcome this latest contribution to the professional literature of 

 the forestry profession. Many of our states have added valuable 



