Canadian Forestry Journal. June. 1920. 



269 



Governments are making- in the for- 

 est regulations. Imagine, for instance, 

 making the same cutting regulations 

 for the whole of a Province the size 

 of Quebec or Ontario, where condi- 

 tions vary so enormously. The Que- 

 bec Government realizes this and on 

 application will examine any area and 

 allow changes in the regulations. Each 

 tract of a few square miles is a prob- 

 lem in itself and must be treated as 

 such. Plans for cutting should be 

 made ten years in advance and chang- 

 ed as experience dictates, but should 

 always be made with the idea of crop- 

 ping any given area continuously or 

 of cutting it clean and reforesting it, 

 either naturally ur artificially. This 

 will raise the logging cost but, mark 

 you, not permanently. As the forests 

 begin to imjjrove and the crop be- 

 comes heavier and of better quality 

 the costs will decline owing to a heav- 

 ier yield and greater accessibility, ow- 

 ing to permanent roads and other im- 

 provements. The costs will tend to 

 become stable and uniform over peri- 

 ods of time. The Province or firm 

 which commences such sensible man- 

 agement will be cutting timber near 

 at hand and cheaply, relatively, when 

 others are looking to Labrador, Un- 

 gava and Alaska for small trees which 

 may or may not prove to be in ex- 

 istence. 



The question has been asked, are 

 we ready to undertake such manage- 

 ment of our forests? I say that we 

 are. that the psychological moment 

 has arrived when we should lay the 

 foundations for a sane and {practical 

 forestry policy which will make Can- 

 ada the greatest i)ulp and i)aper pro- 

 ducing countrv in the world FOR 



alt/time. 



the world's forests 



The forest lands of the world are 

 estimated to amount to about 4,000,- 

 coo,ooo acres, ov about 24 jier cent, ol 

 the world's total land area. This esti- 

 mate does not include the forest areas 

 of China. Korea and the larger part ot 

 South America and Afi'ica f^r wh'ch 

 c\eu fair approximations are not a\ ail- 

 able. The I'nited States, with about 

 545,000,000 acres under forest iias 2. 



826 billion feet of merchantable tim- 

 ber, and its cut, which in 1918 amount- 

 ed to 32 billion feet, is several times 

 that of any other country. 



FORESTRY IS THE KEY 



By the adoption of practical for- 

 estry methods, the United States in 

 the next half century without deplet- 

 ing the standing timber supply could 

 meet all domestic demands for lum- 

 ber and could export from twenty to 

 twenty-five billion feet annually, says 

 an article in the Commerce ^lonthly 

 published by the National Bank of 

 Commerce, Xew York. At* present 

 the timber supply of the world out- 

 side of the tropics is being used more 

 rapidly than it is being renewed by 

 growth. 



CANADA AS A SHIP BUILDER 



Interesting data on Canada's ship 

 and boat building industry in 1918 is 

 contained in a preliminary report by 

 the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 

 covering 90 shipbuilding and 114 boat- 

 building establishments. The amount 

 of capital invested was $56,299,033. in 

 the former branch and $1,145,906 in 

 the latter. The thirteen shipbuilding 

 jdants of Ontario were shown to re- 

 present captal invested to the amount 

 of $28,254,963; Ouebec, nine plants, 

 $14,423,090: BriTish Columbia and 

 Aianitoba. $9,551,604; Xova Scotia and 

 Xew Brunswick, $4,069,376. In the 

 boatbuilding industry the distril)ution 

 shows Ontario with' $640,917, OueI)ec 

 $65,259, the Maritime Provinces $291.- 

 31. and the Eastern Provinces $148,- 

 349. 



HIGHWAY FORESTER 



II. I. Moore, who resigned f.-oui 

 the position of Chief Gardener of the 

 Queen X'ictoria Park Commission, has 

 iTeen ai)pointed bv the Ontario l^ro- 

 \incial Government. I'orester of Pro- 

 vincial Highways. His work will 

 largeh- be the beautification of roail- 

 wavs bv ])lanting shade trees atul 

 shrubs along tluni. His head<|uarters 

 will be in the rarli.iment lUiildings, 

 Toronto. 



