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hill has been appointed Provincial Forester, to take charge of 

 this important work. Mr. Caverhill is a graduate of the forest 

 school of the University of New Brunswick, being a member of 

 the first graduating class, in 1910. Since that time he has been 

 connected with the Dominion Forestry Branch and the British 

 Columbia Forest Branch, and has held various positions of 

 responsibility. 



The crown lands of New Brunswick comprise an area of over 

 10,000 square miles, or approximately one third the total area 

 of the province. The provincial government derives an annual 

 revenue of over half a million dollars from these lands. A 

 careful stock-taking, together with a thorough and scientific 

 investigation of the questions of reproduction and rate of growth, 

 will be required to determine the means necessary for the per- 

 petuation of the forest and of the revenues resulting from its 

 exploitation. It is expected that the Dominion Commission of 

 Conservation will co-operate to some extent, in connection with 

 the more technical features of the work in the field. 



The latest Canadian lumber company to engage the services 

 of a professional Forester is J. B. Snowball & Company, Limited, 

 Chatham, N. B. This Company has employed Mr. J. R. Gareau, 

 a graduate of the Quebec Forest School, Laval University, to 

 have general supervision over the woods operations on the 

 Company's limits. He will also make a map and timber esti- 

 mate of these limits, as well as enforce close utilization of all 

 merchantable material. Cutting operations will be regulated 

 with a view to ensuring the perpetuation of the forest, and par- 

 ticular attention will be paid to fire protection. Other com- 

 panies in eastern Canada employing professional foresters are 

 the Laurentide Company, the Riordan Pulp and Paper Company, 

 the New Brunswick Railway Company, and the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway. 



The Crown Lands Department of Nova Scotia report a total 

 of approximately 13,000 acres burned over by forest fires during 

 the season of 1915. On a considerable portion of this area, no 

 merchantable material was destroyed, so that the total estimate 

 of damage done by these fires is but $15,000. Nearly all of this 



