With the Forest Engineers* 



{Furnished hy the Canadian Society of Forest Engineers.) 



Mr. EUwood Wilson, Superintend- 

 ent of the Forestry Division of the 

 Laurentide Co., Grand 'Mere, Quebec, 

 reports an interesting budget of news 

 this month. 



It is this company's intention to 

 plant up its waste lands as fast as 

 stock can be raised. Buying two year 

 old stock, the total cost of planting 

 has not exceeded $8.00 per acre. 



Mr. Wilson has just returned from 

 a visit to the Provincial Govern- 

 ment 's nursery at Berthierville under 

 the general direction of Mr. G. C. 

 Piche and found a most excellent 

 plant and very interesting experi- 

 ments. Pinus ponderosa and Abies 

 nobilis have been grown successfully. 

 Mr. Roy and a party of students were 

 busy sowing and are to be compli- 

 mented on their good work. 



Mr. Wilson has a nursery well start- 

 ed, which will have, next spring, about 

 50,000 trees (Norway spruce, white 

 spruce, white, Scotch, jack and red 

 pine and basswood). Some four years 

 ago about $2,000 white, Scotch and 

 jack pine were set out and are now 

 from four to eight feet high. Last 

 year 10,000 Scotch pine were set out 

 and this spring 10,000 Norway spruce 

 and a few hundred larch and Black 

 Hills spruce were planted. 



Mr. Perrin, of the Shawenegan 

 Water & Power Company, is consid- 

 ering planting of some of the com- 

 pany's lands. 



Mr. A. H. D. Ross writes the Sec- 

 retary in enthusiastic terms of his 

 work in the West this summer. Much 

 of the work is along technological 

 lines. 



Mr. J. R. Dickson has been trans- 

 ferred to the Head Office of the 

 Branch at Ottawa, and is "getting 

 the glad hand" from many old 

 friends in the Capital. 



Mr. E. J. Zavitz, Forester of the 

 Ontario Department of Lands, For- 

 ests and Mines, has the following to 

 say of the work he plans during this 

 summer: — My chief work at the pre- 

 sent time, and I expect all this sum- 

 mer, will be organizing fire protection 

 for the Dominion Railroad Board in 

 connection with Order 16570. Also T 

 am spending most of my time travel- 

 ling in the North Country and becom- 

 ing acquainted with local conditions 

 and the men already connected with 

 the Department. My work this sum- 

 mer is chiefly in the form of prelim- 

 inary survey. 



Dr. C. D. Howe, of the Faculty of 

 Forestry, University of Toronto, is 

 continuing the work carried on under 

 the Commission of Conservation in 

 Central Ontario during the past sum- 

 mer. Dr. Howe is investigating all 

 forest conditions, paying particular 

 attention to land classification and 

 reproduction. Assisting Dr. How^e in 

 his work are several students in for- 

 estry in the University. 



J. H. White, M.A., B.Sc.F., Fac- 

 ulty of Forestry, University of To- 

 ronto, is making an investigation of 

 conditions on the Dominion lands in 

 Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and 

 British Columbia, both within and 

 outside of Reserves, with a view to 

 ascertaining what methods should be 

 employed to deal properly with brush 

 and to secure the best possible silvi- 

 cultural practice. The work is under 

 the direction of the Commission of 

 Conservation. Mr. White's report 

 will be made in October. Writing 

 under date of June 8, he says: — 

 "Leaving this week for a three weeks' 

 trip through the Clearwater and Bow 

 River Forests — which during this 

 month will probably be a wet one. ' ' 



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