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Hudson's Bay Company's Logging Camp on the Peace River. 



the river and meet a patrol from 

 Chipewyan, by thi^ system the whole 

 of the Peace River could be covered 

 by a patrol twice a month, and if an 

 arrangement could be made with the 

 Forestry Branch for extra pay, this 

 patrol could be made to serve the 

 double purpose of police and fire 

 patrol. I am sure that if an arrange- 

 ment as outlined could be made with 

 the Commissioner of the R. N. W. M. 

 Police we would have a much more 

 effective service at less expense than 

 the appointment of three or four for- 

 est rangers. 



In granting permits to saw-mill 

 owners for cutting timber on the 

 Peace River, I do not think it wise 

 to prohibit cutting on the Islands, as 

 the majority of the Islands on the 

 Peace River have a quantity of over- 

 ripe timber about 10% of which is 

 already affected by stump rot which 

 in some cases extends up the tree five 

 or six feet. Permits could be granted 

 to responsible parties with the stipu- 

 lation that no timber should be cut 

 under a certain size, making the limit 

 an inch or two larger than timber cut 

 on the main land. None of those 

 parties sent out by the Dominion For- 

 estry Branch to examine the country 

 in the vicinity of Lesser Slave Lake 



have, as far as I can learn, been on 

 the Peace River. 



The land covered by any of the 

 timber areas in this part of the coun- 

 try is wholly unfit for cultivation and 

 I do not think it will be necessary to 

 have any of it reserved for timber 

 production. 



New Museum. 



The New York State College of Forestry 

 at Syracuse is developing what promises 

 to be the most complete Forest Museum in 

 this country. Besides a solid Kedwood 

 plank, with dimensions of 7 x 11 feet and 

 the section of a giant Ironwood over two 

 feet in diameter, it is securing trunks of 

 trees from the Adirondacks and Catskills, 

 which will represent all of the native for- 

 est species of New York. It has just re- 

 ceived unusually large trunks of the Moun- 

 tain Ash and Shadbush or Juneberry from 

 the Catskill Forest Experiment Station near 

 Tannersville. These two trees are really 

 forest weeds and seldom reach a large size, 

 but they are of interest because they are 

 weeds of the forest and because they have 

 an ornamental value not ordinarily ap- 

 preciated. The College is anxious to make 

 its Forest Museum the most complete of 

 its kind in the country and is anxious to 

 learn of large or peculiar trees throughout 

 the State. • * * 



One quail killed in Kansas last fall had in 

 its stomach the remains of twelve hundred 

 chinch bugs. This shows one of the useful 

 points of the quail. And keeping forests 

 on lands that are not fit for agriculture will 

 protect the quail, which in turn will protect 

 the farmer. 



