The Cultivation of Nursery Stock 

 for Pulpwood Planting 



The continuously increasing cost of 



suitable pulpwoo d cordage at the point of manufacture has 

 given rise to considerable discussion as to the advisability 

 of reforesting with suitable species devasted areas in close 

 proximity to the mills. Such planting would not be an effort 

 to relieve the dependence of the manufacturers on the future 

 yield of cut-over lands, but would assure a basin material 

 of sufficiently high grade to allow of adulteration by the 

 addition of what are as yet considered inferior species. 



The investment involved in such a forestry 

 practice would not deduct from the amount that- should be 

 re-invested in the limits in scientific management, but 

 would serve to assure the future and the continuity of 

 "Canada's largest single industry". Take for example an 

 imaginary paper concern with a total wood conswnption of 

 seventy-five thousand cords each year." Allowing the mill 

 sufficient land for a continuous cropping on a sustained 

 yield basis, if the executives were determined on a planting 

 programme of five hundred aeres annually devoted to the pro- 



