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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1919 



The logical procedure will be for the forest 

 service to make a careful preliminary study of 

 the conditions on each tract and prepare cutting 

 regulations adapted to the local conditions in 

 each case. These restrictions being known in 

 advance of the sale, the prospective purchaser 

 will take the additional cost of logging under 

 these conditions into consideration when making 

 his bid, so that in the long run the province will 

 bear the added cost of leavmg the lands in a 

 productive condition. The adoption of such a 

 policy as to timber sales may, as its benefits be- 

 come realized, be expected to have a corre- 

 sponding effect upon the administration of lands 

 held under license, through the abandonment 

 of the present rigid diameter limit, which does 

 not, as a rule, give satisfactory results, and the 

 substitution in its stead of a scheme of cutting 

 based upon the local conditions existing upon 

 each particular tract. This should mean, in 

 the course of time, the marking of timber for 

 cutting, under the direction of trained and ex- 

 perienced foresters, with a view to leaving the 

 cutting area in the most productive condition 

 feasible under the existing physical and econ- 

 omic conditions. 



With a technical forestry organization already 

 on the ground, and with the Provincial Gov- 

 ernment in the most hearty sympathy with its 

 work, steady progress toward the more intel- 

 ligent handling of Crown timber lands may 

 confidently be expected. 



WOOD BLOCK PAVING. 



Wood block paving, which in European cities 

 has long been the favorite, is increasing in 

 use in Canada, despite the frequent clumsy 

 methods used by town engineers in laying it. 

 Rightly laid it is an ideal paving material. 



LATE SPRING SAVES $40,000. 



(Toronto Globe) 



Owing to the fact that there is still a good 

 deal of snow in the woods, making it practically 

 impossible for fires to get going, there is no 

 need for rangers, and the department has de- 

 cided not to send the men into the woods until 

 the 15th of this month, or about 15 days later 

 than usual. The saving amount to roughly 

 $2,700 a day. 



NOVA SCOTIA'S FOREST CROP, $19,000,000 



// has been customary to eiiimate the annual value of Nova Scotms forest products ai* 

 $5,000,000. Hon. O. T . Daniels, Attorney General and Commissioner of Lands, comes forward 

 in an article in "Canada Lumberman" declaring that the old total is quite innacurate. Mr. 

 Daniels places the value of Nova Scotia's forest crop at nearly $19,000,000. 



"The following list gives the estimated value of forest products for the province during 

 the present season compiled from the best sources of information available: 



Lumber $8,755,000 



Cordwood 5,250,000 



Staves, fish, apple, potato , barrels and boxes 500,000 



Pulp -- 400,000 



Christmas Trees 50,000 



Hop Poles - 50,000 



Pit Props and Booms 600,000 



Telegraph and Telephone Poles 50,000 



Railroad Ties - 500,000 



Poles, Rails, Stakes, Posts and Boards for fences 500,000 



Ship Timber and Knees, etc 1,000,000 



Laths - 150,000 



Wharf Timber and Piling 100,000 



Shingles 100,000 



Miscellaneous as Weir Stakes, Clothes Pins, Tan Bark, Maple 



Sugar, etc 100,000 



Total $18,905,000" 



