Canadian Forestry Journal, June, 1919 



253 



PRIVATE COMPANIES ENGAGE FORESTERS 



One of the most interesting and striking de- 

 velopments in Forestry during the past few 

 years has been the initiation of tree planting 

 operations by pulp and paper companies of 

 Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario, accom- 

 panied necessarily by the engagement of pro- 

 fessional foresters. Mr. Ellwood Wilson, Chief 

 Forester of the Laurentide Company, has pre- 

 pared, at the request of the Forestry Journal, 

 a memorandum showing the number of com- 

 panies already using foresters. With the name 

 of each company given below, mention is made 

 of the chief duties alloted to the forester's 

 charge: 



J. B. Snowball Co., Chatham, N.B., estimat- 

 ing timber. 



Price Bros. Co., Quebec, P.Q., commencing 

 a nursery; planting this year about 300,000. 



Belgo-Canadian Pulp and Paper Co., Van 

 Bruysell, P.Q., estimating timber; said to be 

 starting a nursery. 



St. Maurice Paper Co., Three Rivers, P.Q., 

 estimating timber. 



Brown Corporation, estimating timber and 

 control of operations. 



Laurentide Company, Limited, planted this 



year one m.illion trees; transplanted one million 

 and a quarter; advisory to logging division; 

 estimating timber; experimental work; classify- 

 ing lands. 



Riordon Pulp and Paper Co., planted 750,000 

 trees; estimating timber; advisory to logging 

 department. 



Canada Paper Co., Windsor Mills, P.Q., 

 planted 350,000 trees; estimating timber and 

 mapping. 



Spanish River Pulp and Paper Co., advisory 

 to logging department; estimating timber. 



Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co., 

 Grand Falls, Nfld., in charge of logging opera- 

 tions; estimating timber. 



Canadian Pacific Railway, in charge logging 

 operations; planting, landscaping and estimat- 

 ing. 



Wayagamack Pulp & Paper Co., Three 

 Rivers, P.Q., advisory to logging department; 

 estimating. j 



Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Limited, Iro- 

 quois Falls, estimating. 



Southern St. Lawrence Forest Protective 

 Association ; managers of both divisions are 

 foresters. 



BLOCKING SAND DUNES WITH TREES 



Mr. G. C. Piche, Chief Forester of Quebec, 

 writes as follows regarding the planting up of 

 the driftmg sand areas of Quebec. 



"We have set there about 80,000 transplants 

 of Scotch and white pine, also Norway spruce 

 with a small amount of green ash and elms. 

 The Scotch pine seems to have made the best 

 show. Spruce appears to do well in some 

 special corners. The hardwoods were only 

 tried to fill up the gaps where there was a tuft 

 of grass on the edges of the land to be restored. 

 They have not proved to be very good though 

 we met a few specimens apparently flourish- 

 ing. The white pine has a delicate foliage and 

 it will only make a good showing when its top 

 about two feet from the soil. We have covered 

 nearly 45 acres which we consider as re- 

 claimed. On the remainder of the area (250 

 acres) we have sown beach grass with great 

 success. As you know this herb will grow 

 vigorously in shifting sands, and it has been 



used extensively in Europe for the holding of 

 the frontal dunes along the sea shores. It is our 

 intention to resume the plantations this spring 

 as we have about 75,000 trees which have been 

 transplanted during two years on the ground? 

 from which we intend to distribute through the 

 beach grass zone. 



"We have done similar work at Berthier 

 Junction, but we have used there a different and 

 perhaps more efficient method, that is. we have 

 employed only Scotch pines and planted them 

 a little closer than at Lachute. Tlien. we have 

 protected the surface against the carrying power 

 of the wind by covering it partially with brush 

 and debris from birch trees. The result has 

 been very encouraging. We have set there 

 about 40,000 trees covering 25 acres, forming 

 little patches here and there throughout the 

 sand. The beach grass was also used but found 

 not to give prompt results as it takes about three 

 years before it makes any show. 



