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expense, was exercised in the logging opera- 

 tions to save the young growth. We have rea- 

 son to beheve that the treated areas will become 

 as valuable as the planted areas. 



"The total amount of the department invest- 

 ment is $1,730.00, which includes team, wagon, 

 engine, mill machinery, and buildings. The pro- 

 fit of the operation to the present time is $239.00 

 less than the cost of the equipment; but the 

 drying yard contains 70,000 staves unsold, and 

 150,000 staves are still to be manufactured from 

 this area. The large chestnut and poplar logs 

 have not been used for staves, but are reserved 

 for lumber. These logs, with oak, maple, ash, 

 and cherry, will cut 75,000 board feet of lum- 

 ber. We have 50 cords of locust for msulator 

 pins and 60 cords of wood for fuel to be re- 

 moved from the area. The brush has been 

 piled and will be burned when weather con- 

 ditions permit. 



Making Mill Managers. 



"Permit me agam to mention the purposes we 

 had in mind before the operation was started: 



1st. The removal of all trees necessary to 

 the well-being of the future stand. This has 

 been done with one exception. No trees harbor- 

 ing squirrels have been cut. No matter how 



unsightly they were, no exception was made to 

 this rule. 



2nd. Profit. A profit of $2.97 a thousand 

 on the staves, $5.34 stumpage in terms of cord- 

 wood, and $10.68 a thousand in terms of board 

 feet, was made on the operation. More than 

 $10.00 an acre has already been cleared on 

 land purchased by the department for $2.00 an 

 acre, with other profits to follow and to be ac- 

 counted for. 



3rd. Training for future service. That "ex- 

 perience is the best teacher" is exemplified in 

 this operation. Our blue print was a memory 

 print of a mill worked on 20 years ago. Many 

 of the mill parts were missmg and it was neces- 

 sary to replace them. The hard work done by 

 the rangers assured the success of the enter- 

 prise. Thirty-one per cent of all the labor ex- 

 pended on the operation was furnished by the 

 rangers and the forester. The salaried men of 

 the department are skilled in operating all the 

 machines and can superintendend their erection 

 and operation. We can now offer to the de- 

 partment of forestry three employees who can 

 superintendent stave mill operations. They are 

 worth more to the department than a 42 per 

 cent profit on the manufacture of keg staves." 



BUILDING A NATION ON A TREE FARM 



By Robson Blaclf. 

 (Continued from June issue.) 



Canada's Forest Possessions Have Been 

 Backbone of Continuous Prosperity. — 

 What the Future Promises. 



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Our Debt to the Lumberman. 



Though we may have paid the price in a diminution of the rich supplies of standing 

 timber, the unhampered exploitation of the forest resources has undoubtedly had many 

 and mighty compensations. Lumbering, our most widely distributed industry, has opened 

 up countless productive agricultural and grazing areas, and has supplied winter employ- 

 ment for tens of thousands of farmers through their first attempt at field crops. Lumber- 

 ing has always been the country's greatest employer; it is a greater wage distributor, and, 

 with pulp and paper making, holds more capital than any other Canadian industry. Faith 

 in Canadian potentialities has in this matter been correctly founded. The development 

 of her natural resources is Canada's ol)vious path to prosperity. True, we have diverted 

 much time and capital to not a few industrial exotics, but that has a fashion of correcting 

 itself periodically. The manifest starting point of a young nation such as Canada is to 



