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Canadian Forestry Journal. 



AMONG THE RIVER-DRIVERS. 



PLANT TREES. 



Great endurance is demanded of the 

 riverman. It is characteristic of them, 

 says a writer in the Outing Magazine, 

 that they accept whatever comes as a 

 matter of course; or, perhaps more truly, 

 it is their pride never to show emotion 

 of any sort. 



One man was dragged out by the collar 

 from a very dangerous predicament be- 

 tween two parts of a breaking jam. To 

 gain safety, his rescuer, burdened by the 

 victim of the accident, had fairly to scale 

 the breafit of the falling logs. For ten 

 seconds it looked like sure death to both, 

 but by a combination of audacity and 

 sheer luck they reached the ban'v. 



Most persons would have paused for 

 congratulations and to talk it over. Not 

 they. The rescuer, still retaining his grip 

 on the man's collar, twisted him round 

 and delivered one good kick. 



'There, take that!' said he; and the 

 two fell to work without further com- 

 ment. 



One February, during a thaw, Jimmy 

 Downing, a foreman, fell over a dam into 

 the eddy below. lie could not swim, and 

 owing to certain sets of current, growth 

 of timber and lay of ice, no one of his 

 men -could get to him. 



The water was cold, and sucked with 

 terrific force beneath a shelf of ice a t 

 the lower end. Sure death again. But 

 Jimmy, befriended of the gods, hit his 

 knee against a single little ledge. Al- 

 though half-drowned, he managed to cling 

 there, and after a moment to drag him- 

 self out. 



Jimmy coughed up a quart or so of 

 water, shook himself, and gazed back at 

 the whirlpool whence he had been so 

 miraculously extricated. 



"Confound it all!" said he. "I lest 

 my peavey. ' ' 



NEW ZEALAND'S FOREST. 



New Zealand has for some years past 

 been engaged in carrying out. an extensive 

 scheme of afforestation to provide against 

 the depletions caused by the growth of 

 the saw-milling industry. For a portion 

 of this work state prisoners are employ- 

 ed, camps controlled by gaol officials being 

 formed near the sites of the various nur- 

 series and plantations. The planting is 

 supervised by experts, and in Rotorua 

 alone more than twenty-four million trees 

 have been permanently planted out by 

 prison labor. Not only have the results 

 been satisfactory from the point of view 

 of afforestation, but also the conditions of 

 the camp life are said to exercise a most 

 beneficial influence on the characters of the 

 prisoners. 



What do we plant when we plant the 



treef 

 We plant the ship which will cross the 



sea; 

 We plant the masts to carry the sails, 

 We plant the plank to withstand the 



gales. 

 The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee; 

 We plant the ship when we plant the 



tree. 



What do we plant when we plant the 



tree? 

 We plant the houses for you and me; 

 We plant the rafters, the shingles, the 



floors. 

 We plant the studding, the laths, the 



doors, 

 The beams and siding, all parts that be; 

 We plant the house when we plant the 



tree. 



What do we plant when we j lant the 



tree? 

 A thousand things that we daily see; 

 We plant the spire that out-towers the 



era?. 

 We plant the staff for our country's flag, 

 We plant the shade, from the hot sun 



free; 

 We plant all these when we plant the 



tree. 



— Henry Abbey. 



TREE CUTTING UP-TO-DATE.. 



For some time it has been known that a 

 wire drawn tight and heated by an elec- 

 tric current red hot would cut its way 

 through a thick tree. Mr. Hugo Gautke, 

 a German inventor, has improved this pro- 

 cess by causing the wire to become in- 

 candescent simply by friction in working 

 its way through a tree. A steel wire one 

 twenty-fifth of an inch in diameter is used, 

 and it is said that this can be made to 

 traverse a tree twenty inches in diam- 

 eter in six minutes. The wire is worked 

 to and fro rapidly by an electric motor 

 and becomes so hot by friction that it 

 burns its way quickly through the trunk. 

 The wire will cut through the tree with- 

 out the use of wedges to keep the cut 

 open, and the cut may be made several 

 feet up the tree, on the ground level, or 

 even below the ground. The electricity 

 may be brought to the forest from a dis- 

 ance by a cable; a gasoline motor of 10 

 horse power and a dynamo are all that 

 is required to use this process. It is con- 

 tended that the great trees, ten feet thick 

 in the forest on the west coast, can thus 

 be felled with ease. 



