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Vol. IX. Ottawa, Canada, January 1913. 



No. 1 



CANADIAN FORESTRY JOURNAL. 



Published monthly by the 



Canadian Forestry Association, 



Canadian Building, 



Ottawa, Canad<i. 



Devoted to the cause of forest conservation. 



Subscription $1 per year. 



Advertising Rates on Application. 



CONTENTS : Page. 



Notes 1 and 2 



American Forestry Association 3 



Tree Planting Competitions 7 



Commission of Conservation 8 



European Forestry 11 



With the Forest Engineers 13 



RANGER SCHOOLS. 



In the City of Ottawa it has been 

 found profitable to give the c^ty fire- 

 men a course of instruction on chemi- 

 cals, water pressure, building con- 

 struction, etc. The lectures are held 

 once a week and are supplemented 

 by practical demonstrations. The 

 men of the Ottawa fire brigade are 

 all selected for efficiency and are 

 supposed to know the essentials of 

 their work. At the same time it is 

 felt they will be vastly more efficient 

 if given definite instruction by ex- 

 perts on certain parts of their work. 

 In the same way it is the contention 

 of the Canadian Forestry Association 

 that forest rangers should be selected 

 for efficiency in the first place, and 

 that they should further be given 

 specific instruction for a few weeks 

 by men who can assist them by ad- 

 vising how to combat difficult situa- 

 tions that are likely to arise in the 

 woods. If city firemen, who are 

 always under the direction of chief 

 and lieutenants, will be benefited by 

 instruction, much more will the fire- 

 man who during a large part of the 

 year has to work single handed many 

 miles from his nearest neighbor. 



NOTICE. 



In regard to this issue of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Journal it may be 

 stated that it has been decided to 

 carry on the publication as a month- 

 ly. Further particulars will be 

 given in the next issue. 



CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. 



On all sides there is evidence of 

 growing determination to separate 

 politics from the civil service. In 

 the Dominion in addition to the re- 

 ports of Sir George Murray and the 

 Special Commission, the Civil Service 

 Association is pressing for the exten- 

 sion of Civil Service regulations to 

 the outside services. There are simi- 

 lar movements in Ontario and Mani- 

 toba, and the newspapers of all poli- 

 tical parties are asking for the change. 

 By the very nature of things there 

 is no department where the plan of 

 appointment and promotion by test 

 and merit is so necessary as in the 

 forest service. Here by reason of the 

 conditions under which the men work 

 they are constantly thrown on their 

 own resources to confront unexpect- 

 ed problems, and the best men are 

 needed. 



A MONUMENT TO A TREE. 



Attention has just been called to 

 a uriiciue ceremony which took place 

 last summer near Morrisburg, Dun- 

 das (Jounty, Ontario, Canada. On 

 this occasion a monument was un- 

 veiled to an apple tree. The farm- 

 ers of Dundas County raised the 

 money by popular subscription and 

 placed a marble stone close to the 



