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and did not accomplish what was intended. 

 Trees left after the first cutting did not com- 

 monly provide a second crop, but were subject 

 to windfall and rot with usually very little 

 increment in growth. As Mr. Wilson remarked: 

 "We cannot afford after fifty years to establish 

 camps to cut only lYi cords per acre". By 

 cutting clean under proper regulation, two major 

 results would be accomplished: good natural 

 reforestation would ensue, and slash disposal 

 could be carried on under ideal conditions. The 

 riddance of debris was a pre-requisite of 

 thorough fire prevention. Mr. W. Gerard Power 

 strongly supported the claims for clean cutting 

 and mentioned the fact that he had been con- 

 ducting some experiments on reproduction on 

 burned-over areas. 



Mr. Reed brought forward some interesting 

 experience from United States practice and ap- 

 proved of clean cutting in spruce forests. 



At Grand Mere ,the delegates were taken to 

 the Laurentide company's nurseries and the 



reforested area at Proulx. This will be made 

 the subject of a special article in an early issue 

 of the Forestry Journal. The Laurentide com- 

 pany planted 912,000 seedlings in 1919, and 

 expect to put out more than a million annually 

 from their own seed beds. The Laurentide 

 company and Mr. Wilson were thanked heartily 

 for the courtesies afforded during the Grand 

 Mere visit. A similar expression was conveyed 

 to Hon. Mr. Allard and Mr. Piche. 



A very interesting incident of the visit was 

 the demonstration of the hydro-aeroplanes re- 

 cently obtained from the Dominion Government 

 for forest patrol experiments by the St. Maurice 

 Forest Protective Association. Mr. Stuart 

 Graham, the aviator, took one of the machines 

 into the air from the surface of Lac Tortue and 

 flew over the heads of the party at an elevation 

 of a few hundred feet. The management of 

 the machine was perfectly ordered and greatly 

 impressed the onlookers. 



ONTARIO'S FOREST POSSESSIONS 



By James White, Assistant to Chairman, Commission of Conservation. 



Regarding the survey of the forest resources 

 of Ontario, the Commission of Conservation has 

 been assured of the fullest co-operation of the 

 Ontario Government in this undertaking and 

 proposes to start at once on the completion of 

 the data. 



It took practically four years to complete the 

 report on the "Forests of British Columbia" 

 which has lately been issued and it is expected 

 to take nearly as long to prepare a similar re- 

 port for Ontario. Much will depend on the var- 

 ious departments of the government and from 

 the timber owners. It is, of course, impossible 

 for the Commission to attempt to cruise the 

 whole province and since such a large propor- 

 tion of the merchantable timber is in private 

 holdings, for which the owners have detailed 

 cruises, it would be extremely wasteful both of 

 time and money, to duplicate this work. The 

 Commission is therefore depending on the lum- 

 bermen, as it did in British Columbia, to supply 

 the information they possess. It may be pointed 

 out that, in British Columbia, detailed cruises 

 were secured on 70 per cent of the alienated 

 lands and in only two or three unimportant in- 

 stances was the information withheld when 

 available. 



Ontario's Co-Operation. 



Through the courtesy of the Minister of 

 Lands, Forests and Mines of Ontario, the Com- 

 mission will have access to all the cruises and 

 reports in his department. Other sources of 

 information will be cruisers, rangers, surveyors, 

 explorers, etc., who have knowledge of local 

 conditions, and, in addition, a considerable 

 amount of field work will be conducted to check 

 and connect up the data received from other 

 sources. 



The individual reports will be treated as con- 

 fidential and used only as a basis for arriving 

 at totals for large drainage areas embracing 

 many holdings. It is hoped that sufficient data 

 will be collected to permit of a general classifica- 

 tion of the land as to whether it is wasteland 

 or is suitable for agriculture or for forestry. 

 Maps will be prepared, showing in a broad way 

 the various forest types as regards composition 

 and yield. 



The report on the "Forests of British Col- 

 umbia' 'has been received with the marked ap- 

 preciation of the timber owners, lumbermen and 

 others interested in the development of the for- 

 est resources of that province and it is felt that 



