Canadian Forestry Journal, January, 1920 



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What community would not like to turn a barren neighborhood into a picture like this? 

 From a photograpli taken in a pine, maple and elm grove in Western Ontario. 



$345,000 TO GUARD ONE ACRE. 



If the suggestion of a settler in Northern On- 

 tario as to the best method of putting out for- 

 est fires had been acted upon by the Department 

 of Lands, Forests and Mines, the Provincial 

 Treasurer would have had to impose a special 

 ta xto meet the financial expenditures of the 

 current year. The Department is in receipt of 

 a letter from a settler suggesting that the best 

 method of utting out the fires would be to drop 

 bombs of carbonic acid gas on the burning 

 areas. It is figured out that it would cost the 

 province $375,000 an acre to extinguish fires 

 by this method. 



RANGERS CARRY HERBARIUMS. 



PRINTING ON SHINGLES. 



The Daily Journal, one of the larger Illinois 

 state newspapers, is being printed on wrapping 

 paper because of the general newsprint scar- 

 city. It is recalled that a newspaper in Mem- 

 phis was once issued on wall paper. The same 

 material was used, however, by a Dawson City 

 publication ,and some time ago an American 

 western journal was printed on a shingle. 



Equipped with small herbariums, the forest 

 rangers on their tours of one of the United 

 States western districts will henceforth gather 

 specimens of all plant species encountered. 

 Turned in at supervisors' headquarters, these 

 will be mounted and described for public refer- 

 ence. Stockmen using the national forest ranges 

 may become familiar in this way with all the 

 forage plants in the region, and will be able 

 to guide their grazing herds away from areas 

 infested with poisonous weeds. 



H. R. MacMILLAN'S NEW CORPORATION. 



H. R. MacMillan, former Chief Forester of 

 British Columbia, has formed the H. R. Mac- 

 Millan Timber Export Company, with head- 

 quarters at Vancouver. 



W. J. V^inDusen has resigned from the Brit- 

 ish Columbia Forest Branch to become con- 

 nected with this new concern. 



P. Z. Caverhill is now in charge of the \ an- 

 couver district, succeeding Mr. \ anDusen. 



