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ting of part of the timber thereon is, of course, congratulate themselves that by the good sense 



• r I • r • 1 *^f successive governments less than ten per cent 



to cut off a portion of the private profit in order ^f ^,^^ j^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j ^j^^ Dominion has passed 



to serve public necessity. Canadians may again out of state control. 



TECHNICAL MEN WANTED IN THE WOODS 



While forestry advocates generally acknow- 

 ledge the cordial spirit and ready aid of Cana- 

 dian lumber trade journals which have time and 

 again opened their pages to discussions of 

 better forest management, one or two of the 

 United States lumber trade publications appear 

 to get entertainment from pot-shooting technical 

 foresters and the practice of scientific forestry. 

 Not so, however, with the "Timberman," of 

 Portland, Oregon, which in place of hiding its 

 head in the sand of "We should worry", de- 

 mands an awakening of all timber operators to 

 the need of applying technical knowledge to 

 'Cutting operations. The following is from a 

 recent issue of the "Timberman": 



"Perhaps no clearer statement of the needs 

 of trained men in the lumber industry has been 

 presented than that issued by the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural College of Corvallis, Ore., in announc- 

 ing its courses in Forestry: 



An industry without leadership is as surely 

 doomed as a rudderless ship. Of all the in- 

 dustries on the Pacific Coast the timber and 

 lumber business is richest in exclusive worth. 

 One-fifth of all the standing timber of the 

 country is in Oregon. The harvesting of this 

 great wealth so as to conserve essential values 

 and serve the public to best advantage, is a 

 task for thoughtful men who are specialists 

 in handling forest products. These men must 

 have the aid of modern science and modern 

 engineering methods. Hence they must have 

 training in a technical school of forestry. 



The war crisis revealed to the world how 

 essential to the nation is the timber wealth 

 of the Pacific Coast. It revealed also the 

 necessity of a far-seeing and consistent effort 

 to conserve our forests as a permanent re- 

 source at the same time that we harvest the 

 timber that is ripe and accessible for market. 

 The activities in shipbuilding and the revived 

 interest in private construction, as well as the 

 extensive programmes for public construction 

 that have been commenced throughout the 

 country, all give assurance of great activity 

 in the lumber business. Hence the need of 

 live and resourceful youths to go out from 



the School of Forestry as future leaders of 

 approved principles of harvesting, manu- 

 facturing and marketing timber products. 

 Such men are few and far between in prac- 

 tical lumbering operations to-day; since for- 

 estry is comparatively new in technical educa- 

 tion. They will be needed, however, and 

 demanded with greater emnhasis, from year 

 to year. The call is already insistent. The 

 largest and most efficient companies are the 

 ones who are keenest for employing technic- 

 ally trained men. They recognize the per- 

 manent worth of scientific leadership. 

 "The Timberman has always contended that 

 the practice of scientific forestry methods would 

 develop through the graduates of logging en- 

 gineering schools where the young men, after 

 engaging in operations, gradually will blend 

 their theoretical ideals with those of the more 

 practical side of lumbering. 



The men who served in the Forestry regi- 

 ments in France have learned an appreciation 

 for timber conservation and its maximum use 

 which will be exemplified in their future life's 

 work, and in time will be reflected in the 

 forest policies of the country at large." 



MACHINES TO FELL TREES. 



(American L,umberman) 



The American Lumberman has private infor- 

 mation to the effect that an American patent has 

 been applied for (and will be followed by 

 foreign patent applications) upon a new type 

 of tree felling machine which uses an original 

 design of chain saw as the cutting tool. It is 

 driven by a small gasoline engine.- The main 

 frame, which rests upon the ground, is provided 

 at one end with wheels so that it may be readily 

 moved, and a sliding carriage operates upon it 

 which carries both the saw and engine and may 

 be moved forward toward the tree which is to 

 be felled. The device appears to be mechan- 

 ically very well designed, and while in its orig- 

 inal design it is adapted only to tree felling, a 

 combination design adapted also to cross cutting 

 could be very readily worked out. 



