Canadian Forestry Journal, May, 1919 



ONTARIO'S NEXT MOVE. 



233 



The earliest recognition that timber land ad- 

 ministration involved more than the scaling of 

 timber and collection of dues, came in the form 

 of organization to protect timber from fire. 

 There came into existence in most of the pro- 

 vinces two separate staffs, one charged with pro- 

 tective and the other with administrative duties 

 — the one idle in the winter and the other in 

 the summer. This unbusmess-like arrangement 

 has gradually disappeared in province after pro- 

 vince, until now Ontario is the only province in 

 which all the phases of timber land administra- 

 tion are not consolidated under one organiza- 

 tion. Quebec was the first province to place 

 the timber administration in technical hands, 

 and to provide technical instruction for its staff. 

 British Columbia followed, and within a year. 

 New Brunswisk has reorganized its timber land 

 administration under technical direction. -Dr. 

 B. E. Fernow. 



FUTURE PROFITS. 



In the coming years we are destined for an 

 immense export trade in the direct and by- 

 products of our forests. An immediate ex- 

 pansion of our timber preserving activities is, 

 therefore, a matter of supreme necessity. 

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SHOULD FIREWOOD BE SOLD BY WEIGHT NOT 



BY CORD ? 



The idea is advanced by the United States 

 Forest Service that wood fuel should be sold 

 by weight instead of by cord measure. The 

 ground for this is that the heating value of wood 

 depends not upon the bulk of the fuel but on its 

 solid contents. We all know that firewood can 

 be so piled that it will measure 128 cubic feet, 

 yet if repiled in an honest way the pilr will 

 shrink to much less than that. 



All persons know that it is the solid con- 

 tent of the wood that produces heat, not the 

 water that may be sealed up in the sap vessels 

 or the air in the crevices. Yet, in buying wood 

 by measure, one must pay as much for these 

 or for the air in the spaces between the sticks 

 as for the solid fuel. It is further laid down 



that a pound of dry wood of one species has as 

 much heating value as a pound of any other 

 species, nearly or quite so. A little reflection 

 will convince any one that this is most probably 

 true. While a pound of dry sap wood may 

 have as much heating value as a pound of heart 

 wood it would fill a very much larger space. Of 

 course the Forest Service has not advanced this 

 idea without careful experiment, for it is not 

 the custom of these scientific bodies to pro- 

 mulgate anything which is a mere notion found- 

 ed on guess. 



It would be doubtless inconvenient to weigh 

 wood. But many a change once derided has 

 since become an established system. It is a 

 matter of history that the first man to raise 



