Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1919 



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"AN ETERNAL SOURCE OF WEALTH 



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London, 29th January, 1919. 

 To Canadian Forestry Journal : 



The forests of Canada represent one of the mighty factors 

 in the wealth and in the character of our Canadian countrymen. 

 Scientifically renewed, our forests are and will be an eternal 

 source of wealth. No country in the world has greater pos- 

 sibilities in this respect than the great Dominion, and, whether 

 the future of the world be peace or war, the timbers of our 

 country have destined us to be one of the great decisive factors 

 in the progress and development of the world. 



Yours smcerely, 



Hamar Greenwood, Col.: Bart: M.P. 



THE WASTE OF CHRISTMAS TREE EXPORT 



By J. A. Bothrvell, President Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association, in Official Address. 



"There is one other subject to which I should 

 like to direct attention for a few moments and 

 that has to do with the question of our raw 

 material. I am not going into an abstruse dis- 

 cussion of the subject, although it is of sufficient 

 importance to justify a great deal of attention 

 and consideration, but I do want to allude to one 

 or two facts m connection with it. We are all 

 aware of what has befallen the paper-making 

 industry in the States through a too prodigal use 

 of their pulpwood. We are aware, too, that our 

 own supply of pulpwood is being consumed at 

 an alarmingly rapid rate. I do not refer solely 

 to its employment for the legitimate purpose of 

 conversion into marketable commodities, so 

 much as to its export in its unmanufactured 

 state and particularly to its wanton and unneces- 

 sary destruction for no good purpose whatever. 

 Every year, thousands of young but valuable 

 spruce trees, owned, it is true, by settlers and 

 other private individuals, are chopped down, 

 their tops cut off and sold for a few cents apiece 

 and carted off to our towns and cities there to 



serve for an hour or two's festival use. Not only 

 IS this an unnecessary waste of good material, 

 but It also denotes short-sighted economy upon 

 the part of the land owners who permit it to be 

 done. These young trees potentially have a 

 much greater value than is represented by the 

 price paid for them when used in this way. In 

 a few years' time, left to develop, they would 

 have a market value many times greater than 

 in their undeveloped state, while, at the same 

 time, their use as raw manufacturing material 

 would contribute to the welfare of all. We are 

 continually being urged to employ scientific 

 methods in tree-cutting and to replant as far as 

 is practical in order that there may not be a 

 complete exhaustion of the supply, but here is 

 a case where young growing trees are needlessly 

 and uselessly sacrificed by the thousands, ap- 

 parently without any one raising the least ob- 

 jection. Our forestry departments could do no 

 bolter service than in putting a stop to the 

 practice." 



