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respectively. Since the planting area in 1907 was 63,000 acres, the 

 average cost per acre appears to be near $20. 



Great activity is noted in the provincial bureaus in the direction 

 of assisting private owners with advice, working plans, etc. 



In 1906 the pine moth (Bombyx pirn ) became obnoxious in the 

 eastern provinces occasioning an expenditure of $52,000, and, in 

 1907, extending its destruction over near 100.000 acres, $135,000 

 were spent in combating it, although the need of "liming" was 

 doubted. Now disease has overcome the pest. The spruce moth 

 (Liparis monacha) also occasioned damage. Here, mixture of the 

 pine, which is also attacked, with broadleaf trees proved an effi- 

 cacious means of resistance. 



In regard to forest fires, we learn that the year 1907 had only 

 19 fires destroying 600 acres as against the 15-year average of 24 

 fires with 1550 acres destroyed. 



Forest fire insurance is becoming more general. The original 

 insurance company in this field (Gladbach) had in 1903, 33,000 

 acres insured, but refused to give later information on account of 

 competitors coming into the field, one competing company report- 

 ing 82,000 acres, and another 4,000 acres insured. These latter 

 insure the sale value of the stands, or else the cost value, while the 

 Gladbach company insures the sale value only on stands which 

 are designed to be cut within the decade, otherwise the expectancy 

 value or, in the beginning till the first thinning, the cost value is 

 made the basis of insurance. 



The change in the cut, which in 1907 was 398,000,000 cubic feet, 

 and in the resulting income, and in wood prices is exhibited in the 

 following table. 



Cut Per Acre 



Money Yield 

 Per Acre 



Price Cents 

 Per Cub. Ft. 



"?U 



1890 

 1895 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 

 1905 

 1906 

 1907 



