168 Forestry Quarterly 



The Dominion Government have in past years used many million 

 feet of Southern pine in the various public works, but hence- 

 forth Canadian timber will be used to the exclusion of the foreign 

 imported article. Douglas fir will replace Southern pine in such 

 works as Quebec harbor improvements, Montreal harbor improve- 

 ments and Hudson Bay terminals. Douglas fir has been used 

 entirely in the Toronto harbor works, as a clause was inserted 

 in that contract calling for Canadian material. The action of 

 Baron Shaughnessy in ruling that Canadian timber only should 

 be used in works of the Canadian Pacific Railway shows that 

 large private users are also finding it consistent with present 

 conditions to use Canadian products. Other users throughout 

 Eastern Canada, large and small, will follow the lead of the two 

 largest users. Architectural and engineering professions also are 

 rapidly swinging from Southern pine to Douglas fir and from the 

 imported woods to the home grown product. 



The Dominion Forest Products Laboratories at McGill Uni- 

 versity, at Montreal, which have been in operation for nearly a 

 year, were formally opened on December 3 by the Minister of 

 the Interior. Several representative speakers took part in the 

 program. The testing machines, the paper plant, the museum 

 and the laboratories were found, upon inspection, to be complete 

 and capable of valuable work. 



Mr. W. H. Houston has been appointed Lumber Commis- 

 sioner for British Columbia for the Prairie Provinces, with 

 offices at Regina, Saskatchewan, 



A ranch owner near San Jose, California, according to Popu- 

 lar Mechanics Magazine, trims his eucalyptus trees with the aid 

 of a high powered rifle. It is 180 feet from the ground to the 

 lowest branches of the giant. The owner, it is said, takes the 

 easy method of lopping off unnecessary limbs by a few moments 

 of pleasant marksmanship. 



With a most laudable spirit the government of the Province 

 of Ontario has made an adequate appropriation for making a 

 close survey to locate and perhaps eradicate the White pine 

 blister rust, which unfortunately has found entrance into the 



