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The sapota tree is the "chewing gum 

 tree." Chicle is the proper name of the 

 life blood of this tree from which the 

 gum is made. It grows in South 

 America, Central America and Mexico. 

 It produces a fruit called the sapodilla 

 pear, and has a straight, clear timber 

 trunk. 



The cinchona tree, of tropical climes, 

 produces the quinine of commerce. 



The natives of the Niger gather im- 

 mense quantities of butter from the but- 

 ter-tree. It abounds in such great 

 quantities that it is likely to become an 

 article of commerce. 



If a man wishes milk when traveling 

 in the forests of Caracas, South Amer- 

 ica. Mother Nature supplies him most 

 abundantly from the cow-tree. This pro- 

 duct has not only the exact appearance 

 l)Ui all the qualities "of cow's milk. 



The wine-palm of western Africa 

 \jelds a delicious sap which, mild wheji 

 hrst drawn, begins to ferment in a very 

 /ew moments after it is exposed to the 

 air. 



Musings of an Old Axman. 



r>y .Douglas Malloch, the Lumberman 



Poet. 



Thays a good dele ov bud in nioast 

 fverbnddy but moast of it happened yis- 

 terday so furgit it an' remember that 

 ibays juss as riiutch good in us too an' 

 diat its thar' t'day so why wurry alxnil 

 yisterday ? 



When I look around an' see tlv world 

 with th' sun a shinin' on it I cant hggcr 

 how come the kizer t' ever think o' such 

 a thing as war — it dont belong nowhers. 



Ever onct in a while I see a feller I'd 

 like t' camp with — an' onct in a while I 

 soe one I'd like t' have camp with me. 

 Doant yo' fmd it so? 



I AND Settlement and Paper Mills. 

 Speaking at a meeting at Montoith. 

 Ont.. Mr. R. A. Mclnucs, manager of 

 Al>ilil)i I'ower & Paper Company, 

 Irocjuois h'alls, said that few jicoplc re- 

 alized what the jndp industry meant to 



the North. The Abitibi Co. paid last 

 year three and a half millions in wages 

 alone. Then there were other mills at 

 Smooth Rock, Kapuskasing and so on. 

 in a few years the wages paid annually 

 by these and new mills would run to the 

 enormous total of $15,000,000. 



Another sign of the importance of the 

 fore.=t was the Abitibi Co. had paid in 

 freight to the T. & N. O. in the past year 

 S*^;'SO,000 and the other companies in pro- 

 portion. 



The investment in the past three years 

 by pulp companies had been $60,000,000 

 in the North country and it was just be- 

 ginning. That showed the enormous 

 importance of the industry to the North. 



Where does the farmer come in? The 

 J ulpwood industries must have settlers ; 

 dioy must have produce and labor. First 

 comes the large industry, then must come 

 tl'c settlers ; roads arc needed. The com- 

 panies and the settlers must work to- 

 gether. It is useless for the people of 

 the North to act individually. They 

 mr.st first work out a programme for 

 rhe North and then go to die Govern- 

 ment and get what they want. 



Mr. Vere C. Brown Chosen. 



The board of directors of the Na- 

 tional City Rank of New York at a meet- 

 ing recently elected Air. Vere C. 

 Brown, western superintendent of the 

 Canadian Bank of Commerce, to the 

 position of executive manager of the 

 National City Bank. Mr. Brown will 

 assume his duties in New York in the 

 near future. He entered the service of 

 the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 

 1S57. 



]\lr. I'.nnvn is a Director of the Can- 

 adian I""(irestry Association and has given 

 invaluable aid upon manv occasions. 



Please send in your membership 

 fee promptly. 



The members are responding 

 splendidly to our new plan of a 

 Two-dollar Annual Fee. includ- 

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