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Canadian Forestry Magazine, October, ig20. 



'Of a wood-working' concern which re- 

 quires a steady annual supply. Since 

 seed years for white pine occur not 

 ■oftener than once in three years, this 

 means that any cutting method based 

 on the periodic fall of seed must make 

 provision for securing reproduction af- 

 ter the operations of the off years. The 

 established logging and milling meth- 

 ods almost necessitate the clear-cut- 

 ting of a considerable area in one place 

 a minimum of not less than 5 to 10 

 acres. 



The method of cutting is a combina- 

 tion of preliminary thinning with 

 clear-cutting. Each year an area large 

 enough to yield the bulk of the annual 

 cut is cleared, and ordinarily thin- 

 nings are made on adjacent areas in 

 amounts sufficient to yield the balance 

 of the total cut. The object of, the 

 thinnings is primarily to stimulate re- 

 production of pine so that it will be 

 available when and where cuttings are 

 made in non-seed years. Each year, 

 Tiowever, the bulk of the operation is 

 a clear-cutting which keeps the cost 

 of the job within reasonable limits. 



Before the final clear-cutting is be- 

 gun all the advance growth, hardwood 

 .and underbrush, both small and large, 

 is cut close to the ground. Usually 

 this can be done with a bush-scythe 

 and at a rate of an acre or an acre- 

 and-a-half per man per day. The pur- 

 pose of this is to eliminate misshapen 

 and overdeveloped reproduction and 

 to insure the uniform starting of 

 straight, vigorous, seedling sprouts. 

 Cost records show that the work is 

 much more than paid for by a saving 

 in the cutting and hauling of logs due 

 to the much greater ease of handling 

 and loading. When the logging starts 

 the slash is burned in piles much of it 

 in broken time while the job is in pro- 

 _gress. The cost of slash burning has 

 varied from fifteen to fifty cents per 

 thousand. 



A Commercial Ideal 

 "The ideal forest situation provides 

 annual growth equal to the annual re- 

 quirements. 



"Forest Conservation and forestation 

 will procure this ideal condition in time 

 and the movement is under way." 



The above is clipped from a full page 

 advertisement of the International Paper 

 Company of New York, the largest news- 

 print concern in the world. While the 

 International Company has used the ar- 

 gument to point an arrow at Quebec's 

 embargo on export of unmanufactured 

 wood from the company's lands to their 

 American mills, nevertheless the prin- 

 ciple of systematic forest management 

 and permanent timber crops is today 

 thoroughly recognized by all progres- 

 sive pulp and paper companies. 



Water Over Sands 



By Douglas Malloch, the Lumberman 

 Poet. 



Time slips away like water over sands, 



So swiftly- — silently, we scarcely know. 

 We ply our oar with fond and futile 

 hands. 

 But with the current we must onward 

 go. 

 The changing scent, strange faces on the 

 shore ; 

 A sudden ripple and a little strife; 

 And then the scene, the face, the strife, 

 no more — • 

 And this is life. 



EIow far we come in such a little while! 



Like water over sands time slips away ; 

 How short the distance from a baby's 

 smile 



To age's wrinkles and a brow of gray. 

 If yesterday, today, are not the same, 



Beyond this bayou is another bend ; 

 And we shall find, and, finding, fondly 

 claim 



Perhaps a friend. 



So hail him ! — do not pass him — give a 

 hail! 

 Behold each lily, ev'ry perfect thing. 

 To speed too swiftly down is but to fail. 

 There are such songs to hear, such 

 songs to sing. 

 Yea, there are fruits and flowers, grass 

 and tree: 

 Live while you may, while life is in 

 your hands ; 

 lime slips away like waters to the sea 

 Run over sands. 



