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duction, as the forester calls it, is one 

 of his first cares. Cutting- must be 

 reg-ulated and conducted in such a 

 manner that youn<>- trees will not be 

 injured unnecessarily. If young trees 

 are not already present in sufficient- 

 ly abundant numbers, older trees of 

 the right kinrl must be left to seed 

 up the area. In some cases it may 

 not be advisable to depend upon this 

 natural seeding. It may be best to 

 gather seed elsewhere and sow these 

 areas artificially. Or conditions may 

 be such that it is advisable to grow 

 the young trees from seed in a nur- 

 sery and set them out while still very 

 tiny. 



Can We Do As Well? 



The forests of Canada are far from 

 the ideal state. They have been sad- 

 , ly neglected and abused, but perhaps 

 not more so than, in former times, 

 were the forests of many of the 

 European countries. Indeed, a hun- 

 dred years ago in some of the coun- 

 tries that today have attained the 

 foremost place in European forestry, 

 the forests were little, if any. better 

 than ours are now. Canadians are 

 becoming awakened to the need of 

 caring for their forests, and they can 

 apply to their forests the accumulat- 

 ed experience of the last century in 

 Europe, as adapted to conditions on 

 us, with these as well as with our 

 other natural resources, is to get the 

 very best possible use out of them 

 whether the use be for the supply of 

 timber, the protection of water sup- 

 ply, the providing of recreation or for 

 the many minor uses for which the 

 forests may be of service. For all of 

 these the forests will continue to be 

 of use. The forests are here to stay. 

 and the sensible thing, the provident 

 thing, the patriotic thing to do, is to 

 take care of them and they will amply 

 repay the care we bestow on them. 



being done by your organization." 

 Western Retail Lumbermen's Assn. 

 F. II. Lamar, Sec.-Treas. 



SEAPLANE FOR PRICE BROS 



A large seajjlane will shortly Ije 

 ship])ed from Vancouver to Price 

 Bros., of Quebec, where it is expect- 

 ed it will l)e used in connection with 

 the timber operations of that com- 

 pany. The seaplane is being l)uilt by 

 Iloffer Bros., and has a 42 ft. spread 

 and a ])assenger capacity of two. It 

 is considerably larger than the flying 

 boat which was built by the same 

 company for the B. C. government. 

 The plane will have a Curtiss 100 

 H.P. engine. 



A GOOD WORD FROM 

 WINNIPEG. 



"We wish again to express our ap- 

 preciation of the great work that is 



RECORD PRICES FOR TIMBER. 



Prices unheard of in the history of 

 lumbering are being paid to the Brit- 

 ish Columbia Government for fir and 

 cedar timber. A sale which probably 

 holds the record for all time was 

 made recently when timber rights on 

 225 acres of land at Ramsay Arm, 

 situated on Tidewater, at a point 130 

 miles north of Vancouver, were sold 

 for $36,000. In this case the figuring 

 was done on a stumpage basis of $5.30 

 per thousand feet for cedar, and $4.10 

 for fir. The net return to the govern- 

 ment wall be $160 per acre. Added to 

 the high prices the mills are getting 

 the benefit of approximately fifteen 

 per cent, exchange on shipments to 

 the United States, where nearly half 

 the British Columbia cut has lately 

 found a market. The volume of busi- 

 ness in timber can be guessed from 

 the fact that the Government sales 

 of standing timber are now approxi- 

 mately three-quarter million dollars 

 weekly. 



(Pacific Coast Lumberman.) 



