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Mprupo furnisluMl (nioMixtli of tni- hcjivi-h, 

 aitout oiiftit'tli of thi> htMidiiixH, nnd itome- 

 wliat IcHH tliiiii four per (MMit. of tho huo{>8. 

 roplar furiiiMli«>il th«> largctit proportion of 

 the luMi*iiiiK>* uhimI — tliirty-onu por font., or 

 almoMt ou«>-thir(l — liut little nioro than liz 

 por font, of thi' xtiivoM. Other woods used 

 nro niapit', buHMWood, ash, Cottonwood, hal- 

 Mnm, Itirfh ami lifcrli. On the wholo, fon- 

 sidorod on a |)«>r rapitn haHts, tho annual 

 slafk foopt<ra);«> output of Canada is 

 ^renter and inoro valuable than that of 

 tho I'nitod Statos. 



Shifk fooporn^e fan profitably bo man- 

 ufneturod from sawmill wasto, and this 

 method of manufnfturo in boin); introduo- 

 ed into the I'nitod Statos. It will no 

 doubt fomo into favor in Canada also. 



Boxes and Box Shooks. 



Tlu' (|uantity of iumbor usod in the 

 maiiufactiiro of boxoH and box Hhooks for 

 tho yoar was 82,072,000 foot, valued a t 

 $l,264,.176, an averajje value of $15.24 

 por thousand foot. Those fijiuros repre- 

 sent only tho product of tho rojjular box 

 ninnufnoturors. Manufacturers in n>any 

 lines, e.j»., furniture, stoves and pianos 

 and organs, make their own crates and 

 pafka;ios. Throo-quarters of the oonsumj)- 

 tion of lumber for this purpose is report- 

 ed from Ontario and Quobof, where the 

 lumber used was valued at over !|!l.l per 

 thousand. A comparatively small i>ropor- 

 tion of the manufacturers in this lino have 

 reported, and it is probable that a con- 

 sumption of 140,000,000 feet of lumber, 

 valued at .t2, 100,000 would be nearer the 

 actual total of wood used. Tho manufac- 

 ture of boxes is one of the industries 

 where a low prado of lumber, which could 

 be profitably obtained from mill waste, 

 could be utilized, to a far greater extent 

 than at present. At present, in Quebec 

 and British Columbia, box lumber com- 

 mands a higher price than all other lum- 

 ber, and in Xova Scotia the spruce used 

 for boxes almost equals in price the spruce 

 of all grades in the market. 



•SpriKi- iiirmHhf»« ovit une-hnlf tho WOOd 

 useil for boxe«, and pinu about thirty per 

 cent. liasM^vooil giveit about four per 

 cent., the other thirteen woods n*«d vary 

 from three per cent, to a fraetioD of one 

 per cent. 



Tan Bark and Tannins. 



Sixty-seven tanneries report the total 

 value of the vegetable tanning materials 

 used at (1,12(1,004 ; this [irobably repre- 

 sents about ninety per cent, of tho total 

 consumption. Tho total was comprised of 

 7H,7i)2 cords of bark, valued at 1646,679. 

 17,31. '{,500 pounds of liquid extract, valued 

 at !(i429,2S.3, and 1,. 372,4 70 pounds of raw 

 vegetable tannins, valued at $51,042. 



Hemlock is now the only bark used in 

 (Canada for tanning, and few tanneries 

 depend upon it altogether; most of the 

 tanneries use bark for some processes and 

 various other tannins for other processes. 



Ontario, with thirty-six tanneries report- 

 ing, used fi6.7 per cent, of the vegetable 

 tannins, Quebec consumed 23.6 per cent., 

 Xova Scotia reported the consumption of 

 six nnd a half per cent, of the whole, 

 and New Brunswick about half the latter 

 amount. 



The average price per cord, at the tan- 

 nery, of the bark used is $8.42 per cord, 

 and of the liquid extract two and a half 

 cents per pound. 



Bulletins 11, 12, 13, 14, 19 and 20 of the 

 Forestry Branch of the Department of 

 the Interior, from which the above figures 

 are taken, deal much more in detail with 

 the topics mentioned, being devoted, re- 

 spectively, to (11) lumber, square tim- 

 ber, lath'and shingles, (12) pulpwood, (13) 

 cross-ties, (14) poles, (19) cooperage and 

 boxes, and (20) tanbark and tanning ma- 

 terials. Bulletin No. 15, which will be 

 published in both English and French, 

 will consist of a collection of the above 

 bulletins. Copies of any of these may be 

 obtained on application to the Director 

 of Forestry, Ottawa, Ont. 



Forest Fires of May and Tune, 1911. 



The long continued dry weather during 

 the months of April and May gave rise to 

 conditions very favorable to fires in the 

 forests, and from east to west come re- 

 ports of forest fires, especially during the 

 early part of May. 



Ontario. 



For several days during the first third 

 of the month grave apprehension was felt 

 at KoMora and Fort Frances, in the ex- 

 treme west of the province. The fires in 

 the neighborhood of Kenora began about 



the fifth of .May. the worst being at Clear- 

 water nnd Whitefish Bays. 



Tn towns along the Canadian Northern 

 Railway much apprehension was felt, 

 though little damage seems to have been 

 done north of the International boundary. 

 Near Rainy River some damage was done. 



The older settled parts of the province 

 did not escape. The neighborhood of 

 Lanark, Ont., was visite<i by quite a se- 

 vere fire, which resulttnl in some $5,000 

 damage. Near Bala, Muskoka, a settler 

 allowed a brush fire to get beyond con- 



