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increased five-fold, under good management, without impairing the 

 forest capital stock. This means an enormous export trade, to which 

 the shortage of shipping is still the greatest obstacle. 



The present and potential value of Canada's export lumber 

 trade is indicated by the order recently placed by Great Britain for 

 lumber from Canada, aggregating around $40,000,000 in value. It 

 has been estimated that reconstruction in France and Belgium will 

 require 25,000,000,000 feet. 



Mr. F. J. Campbell, President, Canadian Pulp and 



Pulp and Paper *.. • i i r^t. ^ ^ 



Industry Paper Association, estimates the value ot the output 



of Canadian pulp and paper mills during 1918 at 

 $110,000,000 to $115,000,000, as compared with about §85,000,000 

 in 1917. During the half-year ending September 30, 1918, Canada 

 exported pulp and paper to the value of $40,636,919, as compared 

 with $31,074,168 during the corresponding period of 1917 and 

 $20,040,745 in the same half-year of 1916. If our exports were 

 maintained at the same rate during the second half of the fiscal year 

 they would aggregate about $80,000,000, or, allowing for a decrease 

 since the armistice, say $70,000,000. During the six months ending 

 September 30, 1918, we exported 980,652 cords of pulpwood, valued 

 at $9,327,901, or at the rate of $18,750,000 per annum. 



In 1917, the output of the 3,000 timber and woodpulp plants 

 in Canada aggregated 4,142,711,000 feet. The total cut of spruce 

 was 1,466,558,000 feet; white pine, 791,609,000; Douglas fir, 

 706,996,000, and hemlock, 332,722,000. 



One-fourth of the newsprint used in the United States comes 

 from Canada, and fifteen per cent of the pulpwood consumed in 

 that country is the product of Canadian forests. 

 Forests must be ^'^^ repeatedly stated by Dr. Femow and Mr. Leavitt, 

 Recognized as transmuting the wealth-producing possibilities of our 

 ^ ^°^ forests into permanent actualities requires the gen- 



eral acceptance of the fundamental principle that the forest is a crop 

 rather than a mine, and that cutting operations on non-agricultural 

 lands must be conducted always with a view to the perpetuation of 

 the forest as such. 



The practice of silviculture is still in its veriest infancy in 

 Canada, as it is over most of North America. There is still far too 

 strong a tendency toward the practice of forestry anywhere except 

 in the woods. At the same time, it must always be realized that 

 forestry is essentially a business proposition, and that business con- 

 siderations place definite limitations upon what it is feasible to do 

 in the direction of intensive methods. 



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