Canadian Foresiry Journal, Jul^, 1919 



309 



"Appalling Waste." 



Next, the waste at the saw mills in New 

 Brunswick and also in Nova Scotia is really 

 appalling. Every mill in the land has either a 

 steel incinerator or an open burner, into which 

 thousands of cords of good material are being 

 dumped and burned up annually, causing a ser- 

 ious loss of good raw material which should be 

 utilized, and depriving many men of work to 

 fit this material for the market. This is a great 

 economic loss which should be very speedily cor- 

 rected. In New Brunswick alone, hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars are lost in this operation 

 annually. 



Another matter that is worthy of serious con- 

 sideration is the manufacturing of our lumber 

 and other products from wood into as near as 

 possible the finished products at home. Too 

 much unfinished raw material is being shipped 

 out of the country on which needless cost is 



entailed in the way of freight charges and our 

 country is deprived of the expenditure of labor 

 to convert. 



Now to sum up, we must be satisfied with 

 nothing less than absolute safety from fire in 

 our forests. 



Our waste and unproductive forest lands 

 should be reclaimed and set to growing timber. 



Our cutting should be so regulated that there 

 would be no usable material whatever left in 

 the woods when cutting is done. 



Our waste in the saw milling eliminated until 

 not even a grain of saw dust will be burned for 

 naught. All material at the saw mills that is 

 not usable in some form may be used as fuel 

 to create power. 



There are many other points I could touch 

 upon, but this letter is already too lengthy. 

 Yours truly, 



ANGUS McLEAN. 



TREE PLANTING WORK IN QUEBEC 



Berthierville Now Has Four Million Seed- 

 lings — Laurentide Company Has De- 

 veloped Successful Plantations. 



0-e of the most valuable organizations in 

 the Dominion for the promotion of actual con- 

 servation of forests is the Woodlands Section 

 of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association. 

 How close to its problems the Woodlands Sec- 

 tion keeps was well illustrated by the holding of 

 a summer meeting at Berthierville, and Grand 

 Mere, Quebec, on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 June 25th and 26th. About seventy-five men 

 identified with the wood-using industries of On- 

 tario, Quebec and New Brunswick, together with 

 Government Ministers and foresters spent a full 

 day in constructive discussion of urgent prob- 

 lems and in estimating the possibilities of forest 

 re-planting. Mr. Piche's nursery work at Ber- 

 thierville is always interesting, but especially 

 was it so when every point in its development 

 was carefully drawn to the attention of the large 

 visiting party. Mr. Piche, with the enthusiastic 

 backing of his Minister, Hon. Jules Allard, has 

 built up a stock of 4,000,000 seedhngs and it is 

 expected that shipments from two to three mil- 

 lion plants annually will soon be possible. The 

 product of the Berthierville nurseries may be 



seen in all parts of Quebec, and the Govern- 

 ment itself has done quite extensive work in 

 planting up denuded lands. Not the least im- 

 portant section of the nursery area is the 25 

 acres laid out for experimental work. This is 

 made up of well-wooded land, and from the in- 

 vestigations in conditions of growth, the depart- 

 ment IS securing valuable data. 



Following the tour of the nurseries, the guests 

 assembled in the dining room of the pavillion 

 where Hon. Mr. Allard delivered an address of 

 welcome. Mr. Piche followed with a paper on 

 reforestation problems, which the Forestry Jour- 

 nal will shortly publish. Mr. Ellwood Wilson, 

 forester of the Laurentide Company, and Mr. 

 F. W. Reed, of the United Slates Forest Service, 

 lead the discussion. This centered upon tlie in- 

 adequacy of present timber cutting regulations 

 which, as frequently pointed out by the Cana- 

 dian Forestry Association, must bear a serious 

 share of responsibility for deteriorating ten- 

 dencies in eastern Canadian forests. It was 

 pointed out at the meeting that the theory un- 

 derlying the regulations was incorrectly based 



