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of Standing timber. Destruction of forest growth by fires, 

 insects, fungi, and other destructive agencies would probably 

 bring the total depletion to more than five billion cubic feet 

 per annum. 



With regard to annual consumption for use, the production 

 of firewood is the heaviest drain on the forest resources, 

 amounting in 1922 to almost nine million cords or an equivalent 

 of almost eight hundred and fifty million cubic feet of standing 

 timber. Logs for Canadian sawmills came second with almost 

 three and a half billion feet board measure, equivalent to seven 

 hundred and fifty million cubic feet of timber. Pulpwood for 

 Canadian pulp and paper mills amounted to about three million 

 cords, equivalent to about three hundred and fifty million cubic 

 feet. Other products in order of importance from the quantity 

 standpoint were railway ties, pulpwood for export, logs for 

 export, fencing material, mining timber, square timber for 

 export, hardwood for distillation, poles and miscellaneous 

 products. 



Quebec heads the list in forest production both for quantity 

 of material and value of products. This province heads the 

 list in the production of firewood, pulpwood, fencing material, 

 square timber for export, and miscellaneous products. It also 

 contributes a large proportion of the saw logs, railway ties, 

 poles and hardwood for distillation. 



Ontario is next in importance, heading the list for railway ties 

 and wood for distillation, and taking second place in the 

 production of firewood, pulpwood, saw logs, and miscellaneous 

 products. 



British Columbia, the third most important province, heads 

 the list for saw logs and poles, and produces considerable 

 quantities of pulpwood. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 

 are also producers of pulpwood in addition to other forest 

 products, but there is little or no pulpwood produced in the 

 Prairie Provinces or Prince Edward Island. 



The exportation of unmanufactured forest products from 

 Canada in 1922 amounted to 819,550,672, and represented a 

 total of 216,172,405 cubic feet of standing timber. This ex- 

 ported raw material formed about nine per cent, of the total 

 forest production, and was made up chiefly of pulpwood with 

 smaller quantities of logs, square timber, railway ties, and 

 miscellaneous products. 



