Canadian Forestry journal, February, 1920 



93 



Before the brush 



was burned on 



one of the 



Laurentide 



Company's 



experimental strips. 



40 man days at $3.10 $124.00 



2 man days at 2.70 5.40 



1 man day at 2.50 2.50 



Board at $1.25 per day 53.74 



$185.64 



They have burned 15 acres on which there 

 were 172.1 cords of wood, or 84,775 B.M. 

 Therefore, the cost per cord is $1.07, and the 

 cost per M., $2.18. 



Mr. Lyons' figures further showed that on one 

 strip of five acres, felling and limbing cost $2.94 

 per cord, with 89 cents per cord additional for 

 piling and burnmg. A second strip of five 

 acres showed a cost of $1.1 1 per cord for brush 

 disposal. 



As to the time check kept on the operation, 

 Mr. Lyons stated that the periods accounted 

 for included the time spent in actually piling and 

 burning the brush. It was found that it took 

 one man one hour to pile the brush from seven 

 trees averaging 8 inches stump diameter. There- 

 fore, in measuring the same, computing into 

 cords and at the wages paid, the result was 87 

 cents per cord. 



B.C/S CUT FOR 1919. 



Victoria, B.C. The total log scale for the 

 province for the year 1919 is 1.758,329,995 

 feet, as compared with 1,761,184,406 feet in 

 1918, according to a statement issued by Hon. 

 T. D. Pattullo, Minister of Lands. 



COMING B. C. LEGISLATJON. 



"It is also foreshadowed that a measure will 

 be brought down looking to the conservation in 

 perpetuity of the timber of the province, and the 

 Legislature will be asked to grant a special ap- 

 propriation in this connection. Irrigation con- 

 ditions in the dry belt will again be considered 

 with the object of providing for a more thorough 

 system of protection to the water service gener- 

 ally in the districts affected. In this respect the 

 minister of lands will introduce a comprehensive 

 proposal for the consideration of the House." 

 — Vancouver Province. 



BARK BEETLE MENACE AT COAST. 



War has been declared by the B.C. Forest 

 Branch on the pine beetle which for years has 

 been carying on its destructive work in certain 

 sections of the interior of the province. 



Mr. Ralph Hopping, an entomologist, who has 

 had wide experience in fighting the pine beetle 

 on both sides of the international boundary, 

 has been loaned by the Entomological Branch of 

 the Department of the Interior at Ottawa. He 

 is now on the ground directing operations for 

 the curtailment of the energies of the beetle, 

 and, it is hoped, for its ultimate control. 



