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ous infections was also accomplished by slash 

 disposal. 



THE WINDFALL MENACE. 



Hon. W. R. Brown, of the Brown Corporation, 

 expressed hismelf as unconvinced regarding 'he 

 merits of top-lopping. After seven years he 

 could discern very little beneficial effect in 

 spruce operations. 



Mr. J. A. Bothwell, President of the Cana- 

 dian Pulp and Paper Association, stated that 

 windfalls were responsible for more damage 

 than logging slash. He thought that entomolo- 

 gical work should take precedence to any plan 

 for general slash disposal. 



Mr. W. Gerard Power agreed with Mr. Both- 

 well, as to the great menace of windfalls in 

 supplying fuel for fires. As concerns the River 

 Quelle Pulp and Lumber Company he was go- 

 ing to continue making experiments in slash 

 disposal, and hoped in time to obtain some re- 

 liable data. Mr. Power said that he was ab- 

 solutely in favor of clearing one hundred feet 

 along the railways and a suitable distance ad- 

 jacent to the main roads. His company had 

 already done a good deal of slash burning along 

 its roads. 



Mr. R. P. Kernan, Chairman of the meeting, 

 also emphasized the need of burning up debris 

 along tote roads and main trails. 



LOW COSTS IN PRAIRIE PROVINCES. 



At the evening meeting of the Canadian 

 Society of Forest Engineers, the question of dis- 

 posal of logging debris was taken up by several 

 foresters. Mr. Bristol, of the Delaware and 

 Hudson Railway Company, told of the New 

 York State law requiring lopping down to a 

 three-inch top and regarded this regulation as 

 materially reducing the fire hazard. Mr. E. H. 

 Finlayson, District Inspector of Forest Reserves, 

 Calgary, said that all sales by the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch called for brush disposal. Some 

 operations had shown a piling and burning cost 

 of $1.85 per thousand board feet in stands 

 where the crews were taking out to a diameter 

 of five inches. Under more efficient methods 

 the cost should not have been over $1.10 or 

 $1.15 per thousand feet. In another large sale 

 for railway tie purposes the cost reckoned up 

 was 3 cents per tie. 



Mr. C. MacFayden, District Inspector of For- 

 est Reserves at Prince Albert, told the meeting 

 that in Dominion Forestry Branch sales in Sas- 



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